Secretary Chu Congratulates DOE-Supported Researcher on 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today congratulated Saul Perlmutter, a physicist at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, for winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.”