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Brian Schmidt

American-born Australian astrophysicist

1967   -  

country of citizenship: United States of America, Australia
language of expression: English
educated at: Harvard University, University of Arizona
occupation: astronomer, professor, researcher, physicist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Physics, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Silver Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The Shaw Prize in Astronomy, Pawsey Medal, Companion of the Order of Australia

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 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, making him the only Montana-born Nobel laureate.
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SN 1991T: Reflections of past glory ( 1994 )

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

author: Brian Schmidt, Alexei Filippenko, Robert Kirshner, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente Bruno Leibundgut, Lisa A. Wells, Alain C. Porter, Peter Challis

The distances to five Type II supernovae using the expanding photosphere method, and the value of H[SUB]0[/SUB] ( 1994 )

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

author: Brian Schmidt, Mario Hamuy, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Robert Kirshner Ronald G. Eastman, Mark M. Phillips, Jose Maza, Roberto Aviles

A possible low-mass type Ia supernova ( 1993 )

scientific article published in Nature

author: Brian Schmidt, Alexei Filippenko, Robert Kirshner, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Luis C. Ho David J. Jeffery, Peter M. Challis, Francisco Sánchez, Ramon Canal

SN 1991bg - A type IA supernova with a difference ( 1993 )

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

author: Brian Schmidt, Mario Hamuy, Robert Kirshner Bruno Leibundgut, Mark M. Phillips, Lisa A. Wells, N. B. Suntzeff, R. A. Schommer, A. R. Walker, L. Gonzalez, P. Ugarte, R. E. Williams, G. Williger, Mercedes Gomez, Ronald Marzke, Barbara Whitney, Nelson Coldwell, J. Peters, F. H. Chaffee, Craig B. Foltz, D. Rehner, L. Siciliano, T. G. Barnes, K.-P. Cheng, P. M. N. Hintzen, Y.-C. Kim, Jose Maza, J. Wm. Parker, A. C. Porter, P. C. Schmidtke, George Sonneborn

A Hot Jupiter in a Nearly Polar Orbit ( 2013 )

wetenschappelijk artikel

author: Brian Schmidt, George Zhou Brett C. Addison, Chris G. Tinney, Duncan J. Wright, Daniel Bayliss, Joel D. Hartman, Gáspár Á. Bakos

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