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Brian Paul Schmidt AC FRS FAA FTSE (born 24 February 1967) is a Distinguished Professor and astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Brian Schmidt is an astronomer who studies supernovae, gamma ray bursts and the southern sky. He is also a vintner who runs a vineyard and a winery in Australia.
Brian Schmidt is an American-born Australian astrophysicist who discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe using distant supernovae. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for this groundbreaking work.
BS Phys, BS Astro, AM Astro, PhD Astro. The Nobel Prize in Physics. Brian Schmidt shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
May 6, 2024 · Brian P. Schmidt is an astronomer who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of dark energy, a repulsive force that is the dominant component (73 percent) of the universe. He shared the prize with American physicist Saul Perlmutter and astronomer Adam Riess.
4 days ago · Brian Schmidt is a Distinguished Professor and former Vice Chancellor and President of ANU College of Science. He is an expert in cosmology and extragalactic astronomy, and has published numerous papers on topics such as supernovae, quasars, and metal-poor stars.
Professor Brian Schmidt, astronomer. Brian Schmidt was born in 1967 in Montana, USA. In 1989 he received a BSc in physics and a BSc in astronomy from the University of Arizona. He went to Harvard University for graduate work and received a PhD in astronomy in 1993.
