With whom did Brian Schmidt share his Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess and Saul Perlmutter shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. They used different techniques to study the brightness of Type Ia supernovae, and found that they were all fainter than expected, indicating that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating.
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