Saul Perlmutter Scientist

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Personal facts

Birth date	September 22, 1959
Birth place	Illinois , Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area , United States
Nationality	United States
Residence	United States
Education	Harvard University University of California Berkeley
Known for	Accelerating universe Dark energy