Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, today was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The academy recognized him for leadership in the High-z Team's 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained "dark energy" filling the universe. Much of this work was done with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.