Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: How DOE Helped to Win (yet another) Nobel Prize

Conference · Fri Jan 13 04:00:00 EST 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1580050· OSTI ID:1032838

Perlmutter, Saul; Chu, Steven

The Department of Energy (DOE) hosted an event Friday, January 13, with 2011 Physics Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter. Dr. Perlmutter, a physicist at the Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” DOE’s Office of Science has supported Dr. Perlmutter’s research at Berkeley Lab since 1983. After the introduction from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Dr. Perlmutter delivered a presentation entitled "Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: How DOE Helped to Win (yet another) Nobel Prize." [Copied with editing from DOE Media Advisory issued January 10th, found at http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-host-event-2011-physics-nobel-laureate-saul-perlmutter]

• Research Organization: LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Friends of Berkeley Lab; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1032838
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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