Brian P. Schmidt

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Brian Schmidt (2011)
Interview with Schmidt after his Nobel Lecture

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 at nobelprize.org, October 4, 2011 (English; accessed October 4, 2011).