| Date of Birth | 16-December-1969 | |
| Place of Birth |
Washington, D.C. (United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States, Area code 202) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Profession | Astronomer, Professor | |
| Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. | ||
Awards by Adam Riess |
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