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Saul Perlmutter

American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate

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Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work studying distant supernovae, which led to the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating. His findings fundamentally changed our understanding of the cosmos by revealing the existence of dark energy, a mysterious force that makes up most of the universe.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1959

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Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,388x
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,495x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,374x
UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
· 2018 · cited 9,076x

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Quotes

“Less than a century ago we had no idea that there was more to the universe than our own Milky Way. the immense size of the universe, the fact that it is expanding, the fact that it is populated with such things as – all this and more had to be discovered before we could do the work that led us to contemplate an .”
“Not only does it swallow anything that comes too near it but no one lives to tell the tale ... there are footprints leading in, and no footprints leading out ... If black holes weren’t real, I think the science-fiction writers would have wanted to invent them.”

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Commons category: Saul Perlmutter
date of birth: 1959-09-22
Erdős number: 5
name in native language: Saul Perlmutter

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Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

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