Who were the co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize along with Riess?
Einstein and Planck
Tesla and Newton
Perlmutter and Schmidt
Hawking and Feynman
Answer
Perlmutter and Schmidt were the co-recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize along with Riess for their work in discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. They used Type Ia supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe and found that it was not slowing down, as was previously thought, but was actually speeding up.
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