Adam Riess Scientist

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and 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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Adam Riess
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1969
Birth nameAdam Guy Riess
Birth place
Washington D.C.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
University of California Berkeley
Known for
Accelerating universe
Dark energy

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