What major award did Saul Perlmutter share in 2011?
Nobel Prize in Physics
Pulitzer Prize
Grammy Award
Emmy Award
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2011 to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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