Three American physicists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics early Tuesday morning for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Brian Schmidt of Australian National University in Weston Creek, Australia; Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore; and Saul Perlmutter of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are sharing this year's prize for discovering that the universe is moving faster and faster outward -- movement likely powered by the mysterious "dark energy" that fills about 70% of the universe.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
U.S. physicists nab Nobel for discovery fueled by 'dark energy' - latimes.com
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