The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul PerlmutterThe Supernova Cosmology ProjectLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and the other half to Brian P. SchmidtThe High-z Supernova Search TeamAustralian National University, Weston Creek, Australia and Adam G. RiessThe High-z Supernova Search TeamJohns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe