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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.
Brian Schmidt is an astronomer who studies supernovae, gamma ray bursts and the southern sky. He is also a vintner who runs a vineyard and a winery in Australia.
Brian Schmidt is an American-born Australian astrophysicist who discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe using distant supernovae. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for this groundbreaking work.
BS Phys, BS Astro, AM Astro, PhD Astro. The Nobel Prize in Physics. Brian Schmidt shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
3 days ago · Brian Schmidt is a Distinguished Professor and former Vice Chancellor and President of ANU College of Science. He is an expert in cosmology and extragalactic astronomy, and has published numerous papers on topics such as supernovae, quasars, and metal-poor stars.
Feb 2, 2023 · Brian Schmidt, the Nobel laureate who has been at the helm of Australian National University since 2016, will step down at the end of the year to return to his first two loves: teaching and...
I am an astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, formerly known as Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories. I work in several areas of astronomy, most notably with exploding stars called supernovae.
