#  Harvard Astronomy and Physics Alumni Win Nobel Prize 

 





December 01, 2011

 

 

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### [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/)

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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



 

 

 



 

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