Adam Riess

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Adam Riess at the press conference after receiving the Nobel Prize in 2011

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969 in Washington, DC ) is an American astrophysicist whose research deals with the use of supernovae as cosmological measures of distance. In 2011 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics .

biography

Riess was born into a Jewish family. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( bachelor's degree in 1992) and received a Ph.D. 1996 at Harvard University with a thesis on type I supernovae, supervised by Robert Kirshner . From 1992 he was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . Riess was part of Brian Schmidt's High-Z Supernova Search Team , one of the two groups that used supernovae to prove that the universe was expanding at an accelerated rate in the late 1990s. The other team was the Supernova Cosmology Project by Saul Perlmutter . Riess then went to the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Fellow in 1996 , and to the Space Telescope Science Institute as Senior Staff Scientist from 1999 to 2005 .

Since 2006 he has been Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University .

With the Hubble space telescope , he pursued a search program for supernovae at an even higher redshift , which extends into the earlier delayed expansion phases of the universe.

He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences since 2009 . In 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt . Her discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe by observing distant supernovae was recognized.

His grandfather was the German-Jewish writer Curt Riess (1902–1993) who emigrated to America from Würzburg in 1933 and later lived in Switzerland .

Awards

Fonts

  • with Robert Kirshner, Mario Livio and others (Supernova Search Team): Type Ia supernova discoveries at z> 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution, Astrophys. J., Volume 607, 2004, p 665-687, Arxiv
  • with Brian P. Schmidt, Alexei Filippenko , Robert Kirshner and others (Supernova Search Team): Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant, Astron. J., Volume 116, 1998, pp. 1009-1038, Arxiv
  • with Jose Luis Bernal, Licia Verde: The trouble with , JCAP, 10, 2016, 019, Arxiv
  • with Marc Kamionkowski a. a .: Did LIGO detect dark matter?, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 116, 2016, 201301, Arxiv

Web links

Commons : Adam Riess  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WEDDINGS; Nancy Schondorf And Adam Riess (English) . In: New York Times , January 11, 1998. 
  2. ↑ Dr. Gail Riess Is Married . English. Online at Nytimes.com June 18, 1989. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  3. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 at nobelprize.org, October 4, 2011 (English; accessed October 4, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Riess, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riess, Adam Guy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC