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Three US scientists win Nobel for accelerating universe
In 1998 Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess showed the universe’s expansion is speeding up, signaling dark energy as an enigma. Perlmutter, Schmidt, and Riess receive the Nobel along with teams at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Australian National University, and Johns Hopkins Space Telescope Institute.
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Saul Perlmutter
Brian Schmidt
Adam Riess
Nobel Committee
Perlmutter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Schmidt
Australian National University
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Australia
Riess
Johns Hopkins University
Space Telescope Science Institute
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