Who was the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics shared with?
Only Saul Perlmutter
Only Brian P. Schmidt
Both Saul Perlmutter & Brian P. Schmidt
Shared with 5 other scientists
Answer
Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. They were able to show that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down, as was previously thought, but is actually speeding up. This discovery has important implications for our understanding of the universe and how it evolved.
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