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Additional Information
The official citation reads: The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation proudly presents the 2007 Cosmology Prize to Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt, and to the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search teams, for their discovery that the expansion of the Universe is currently accelerating.
These observations required the development of new techniques that use supernovae exploding within distant galaxies to measure precise distances across a large fraction of the observable Universe.
The discovery of the accelerated expansion has radically changed our perception of cosmic evolution.
A full list of team members (link opens in a new window)can be seen at gruber prizes website.
In the UK they include from the Supernova Cosmology Project Team:
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Patricia G. Castro, University of Edinburgh
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Isobel Hook, Oxford University
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Mike Irwin, University of Cambridge
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Richard McMahon, University of Cambridge
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Nelson Nunes, University of Cambridge
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Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge
For more information on the Gruber Prizes email media@gruberprizes.org or contact Bernetia Akin of the Gruber Foundation at +1 (340) 775-8035 or by mail 140 W 57th St Suite 10C New York, NY 10019.
Media materials and additional background information on the Gruber Prizes can be found at our online newsroom (link opens in a new window):
