Harvard Astronomy and Physics Alumni Win Nobel Prize

December 1, 2011

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Saul Perlmutter, Harvard Physics undergraduate, and Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess both Harvard Astronomy PhDs were recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."

Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess