Brian P. Schmidt
Brian Paul Schmidt (born February 24, 1967 in Missoula , Montana , United States ) is an American / Australian astronomer. In 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics . He was one of the founders and leaders of the High-Z Supernova Search Team .
biography
Schmidt grew up in Montana and Alaska. He studied physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and earned a Ph.D. 1993 at Harvard University with a thesis on type II supernovae, supervised by Robert Kirshner . Since 1995 he has been working in Australia at the Mount Stromlo Observatory and since 1999 at the Australian National University .
Schmidt directs the high-z Super Nova Search Team , one of the two teams that in the late 1990s from the measurement of the brightness further supernovae of type Ia discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating (the other team was the Super Nova Cosmology Project of Saul Mother-of-pearl ). Was involved and Adam Riess . This discovery triggered today's search for the nature of dark energy . In addition to supernovae, he is interested in gamma-ray bursts and is the scientific director of the Skymapper project to build a survey telescope for the southern sky.
In 2011 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess . Her discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe by observing distant supernovae was recognized.
Awards
- 2006: Shaw Prize
- 2007: Gruber Prize for Cosmology
- 2008: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2011: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 2012: Dirac Medal (UNSW)
- 2013: Companion of the Order of Australia
- 2016: An asteroid was named after him: (233292) Brianschmidt
Fonts
- with Adam Riess , Alexei Filippenko , Robert Kirshner and others (Supernova Search Team): Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant . In: Astron. J. , Volume 116, 1998, pp. 1009-1038, arxiv : astro-ph / 9805201
- with Saul Perlmutter : Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae . In: K. Weiler (Ed.): Supernovae & Gamma Ray Bursts ( Lecture notes in physics , 598). Springer, 2003, pp. 195-217, arxiv : astro-ph / 0303428
literature
- Brian Schmidt , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2011 from November 8, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Brian Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Brian Schmidt
Individual evidence
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 at nobelprize.org, October 4, 2011 (English; accessed October 4, 2011).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Brian P. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Brian Paul (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Australian astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Missoula |