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Adam Riess

1969 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Watchung Hills Regional High School
occupation:  astronomer, professor, physicist, astrophysicist
award received:  Nobel Prize in Physics, MacArthur Fellows Program, Albert Einstein Medal, Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy, Robert J. Trumpler Award, Sackler Prize for Physics, Clarivate Citation Laureates

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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