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Brian Schmidt | |
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 Schmidt at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | |
| Born | Brian Schmidt 24 February 1967 Missoula, Montana, United States |
| Nationality | American Australian[3] |
| Citizenship | |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona (1989), Harvard University (1993) |
| Spouse | Jennifer M. Gordon |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Australian National University |
| Thesis | Type II supernovae, expanding photospheres, and the extragalactic distance scale (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Kirshner[2] |
| Website | www |
Brian Paul Schmidt AC FRS FAA FTSE (born 24 February 1967) is a Distinguished Professor and astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[4][5][6] He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024.[7][8][9] 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.[1] 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.
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