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Saul Perlmutter at the press conference for the 2011 Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry and Physics

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959 in Champaign-Urbana , Illinois ) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics.

family

Saul Perlmutter was in an Ashkenazi - Jewish family, the son of the professor of chemical and Biomolekularingenieurwissenschaft at the University of Pennsylvania Daniel P. Perlmutter and professor at Temple University and sociologist Felice D. Perlmutter born. After the Russian Revolution in 1919, the mother's Jewish parents immigrated from what is now Moldova to the USA via Canada . Saul Perlmutter has two siblings, Shira and Tova.

Life

Saul Perlmutter studied physics at Harvard University ( bachelor's degree in 1981) and received his Ph.D. in 1986. at the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis on the search for supernovae . He was a scientist at the Center for Particle Astrophysics in Berkeley from 1989 to 1993 and has been a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1983 (since 1999 as a senior scientist and group leader).

Perlmutter founded and headed the Supernova Cosmology Project from 1988 , which, in addition to the High-Z Supernova Search Team (HZT), concluded from the measurement of the brightness of other type Ia supernovae that the cosmic expansion was accelerating . This discovery triggered today's search for the nature of dark energy . Perlmutter is involved in several observation projects looking for supernovae to clarify cosmological problems.

In 2011 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess from the HZT . Her discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe by observing distant supernovae was recognized.

Perlmutter has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2000, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 , the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2003 and the American Philosophical Society since 2014 . He is also doing research in the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project.

Awards

Fonts

  • Supernova Cosmology Project (Perlmutter et al.): Cosmology from Type Ia Supernovae . In: Bulletin Am. Astron. Soc. , Volume 29, 1997, p. 1351, arxiv : astro-ph / 9812473
  • Supernova Cosmology Project (Perlmutter et al.): Measurements of the Cosmological Parameters Omega and Lambda from the First 7 Supernovae at z> = 0.35 . In: Astroph. J. , Volume 483, 1997, p. 565, arxiv : astro-ph / 9608192
  • Supernova Cosmology Project (Perlmutter et al.): Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae . In: Astrophys. J. , Volume 517, 1999, pp. 565-586, arxiv : astro-ph / 9812133
  • with Brian P. Schmidt : 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

Web links

Commons : Saul Perlmutter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel D. Perlmutter .
  2. ^ Social Work Honors Its Own at Reunion .
  3. ^ "Physics in the News," University of California, Berkeley, accessed October 4, 2011.
  4. ^ Daniel P. Perlmutter, Robert L. Rothstein: The Challenge of Climate Change: Which Way Now . John Wiley and Sons, 2011, p. 1.
  5. ^ Website of Daniel P. Perlmutter , University of Pennsylvania , accessed October 4, 2011.
  6. ^ A b Lisa Yount: Modern astronomy: expanding the universe. Infobase Publishing 2006, page 195 f.
  7. ↑ Perlmutter et al .: iopscience.iop.org In: The Astrophysical Journal , 1999
  8. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 at nobelprize.org, October 4, 2011 (English; accessed October 4, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Mother of pearl, Saul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign-Urbana , Illinois