The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2006

 

is awarded jointly to

 

SAUL PERLMUTTER

ADAM RIESS

BRIAN SCHMIDT

 

for discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.

 

21 June 2006

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