Brian Schmidt

Also known as Brian P Schmidt, Brian P. Schmidt, B. P. Schmidt, Brian Paul Schmidt, B P Schmidt, B.P. Schmidt

American-born Australian astrophysicist

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Brian Schmidt is an American-born Australian astrophysicist who studies the universe and celestial objects. While specific details about his major contributions aren't provided here, astrophysicists like Schmidt work on fundamental questions about how the universe works and evolves, which helps advance our understanding of space and our place in it.

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Works: 6

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New Heights for Northern Lights
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Everyday Blessings
Nodders
International Relations and the First Great Debate

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Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS, FAA is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University. 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.

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Great Minds — Self2021
Q&A — Self - Panellist2008

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Type: Person
Country: AT
Active from: 1874-12-22
Active to: 1939-02-11

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,463x
IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies
· 2014 · cited 23,764x
Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,157x
General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,083x

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Quotes

“… one does not expect a . To my mind, I was genuinely surprised because when you make a discovery of acceleration–well, what causes the acceleration? Well, we give it a name––but we don’t understand it yet. I would not be surprised if we don’t understand it during my lifetime. Without understanding it, I felt it wouldn’t be worthy of a Nobel Prize. The fact that it was given pretty timely–you know, I was only 44 last year–was a bit of surprise.”

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Official website: www.mso.anu.edu.au/~brian
Image: Brian Schmidt portrait 1.jpg

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Commons category: Brian Schmidt
date of birth: 1967-02-24
Erdős number: 6
name in native language: Brian P. Schmidt
social media followers: 32303
affiliation string: Australian National University

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Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, 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.

Early life and education