Adam Riess
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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| Born | Adam Guy Riess December 16, 1969 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University |
| Known for | Accelerating universe / dark energy, Hubble Constant |
| Spouse | Nancy Joy Schondorf (m. 1998) |
| Awards | Robert J. Trumpler Award (1999) Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2002) Sackler Prize for Physics (2004) Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006) Nobel Prize in Physics (2011) Albert Einstein Medal (2011) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015) |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Doctoral advisor | Robert Kirshner, William H. Press |
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