In what year did Brian Schmidt win the Nobel prize?
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Brian Schmidt won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for his contributions to the study of dark energy. He and two other scientists, Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess, led a team that discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This discovery challenged the prevailing view that the expansion of the universe was slowing down.
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