With whom did Schmidt share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Answer
Schmidt shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for their work in discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Their work was based on observations of Type Ia supernovae, which are standard candles that can be used to measure the distance to distant galaxies.
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