Abstract
Brian Schmidt was the leader of one of the two supernova search teams that discovered the universe is accelerating. His discovery was named Science Magazine's breakthrough of the year for 1998 and in 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with Saul Perlmutter (University of California, Berkeley) and Adam Riess (John Hopkins University). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has made significant contributions in observational cosmology, supernovae, gamma ray bursts and all-sky surveys. This paper is based on an interview with him. It traces the trajectory that led Brian Schmidt to the accelerating universe and other achievements in astronomy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 83-90 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales |
| Volume | 144 |
| Issue number | 45385 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Hubble
- accelerating universe
- dark energy
- dark matter
- supernovae