
Adam Riess
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Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Riess has been at the center of a growing scien
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Adam Riess discusses supernovae, growth of the universe at packed lecture
The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows
Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins
Nobel Laureate Adam Riess to discuss mystery of dark energy - University of California, Berkeley