Awards & Winners

Brian Schmidt

Date of Birth 24-February-1967
Place of Birth Missoula
(Missoula County, Montana)
Nationality Australia, United States of America
Profession Professor, Astronomer
Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS is a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at The Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected to the Royal Society in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Awards by Brian Schmidt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Brian Schmidt.

2011


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae)