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What prize did Brian Schmidt share with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter in 2011?

  • The Nobel Prize for Physics

  • The Man Booker Prize

  • The Pulitzer Prize

  • The Turner Prize

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In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe. Their work used Type Ia supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe and found that it was accelerating. This discovery contradicted the standard model of cosmology, which predicted that the expansion of the universe should be slowing down.
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