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Adam Guy Riess 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 th…

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science · American astrophysicist (born 1969) · astronomer · professor · physicist · astrophysicist · researcher · also Adam Riess, Adam Guy Riess, Adam G. Riess, Adam G Riess, A. G. Riess, A.G. Riess

Born 16 December 1969 · Q106454

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Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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2020· 1 entry

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Riess was made fellow of the American Astronomical Society

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2015· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2015Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015).

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2012· 2 entries

Nov 23, 2012Documented record69% confidence

Northcountrypublicradio.org: Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job

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2012Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Riess received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement

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2011· 3 entries

Dec 10, 2011Documented record85% confidence

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.

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Jun 15, 2011Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2011).

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Jun 15, 2011Documented record84% confidence

Won Albert Einstein Medal (2011).

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2010· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2010).

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2008· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2008Documented record84% confidence

Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (2008).

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2006· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2006Documented record84% confidence

Awarded The Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006).

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2006Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Shared the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P

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2004· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2004Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Sackler Prize for Physics (2004).

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2003· 1 entry

2003Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Physics in 2004 for the discovery of cosmic acceleration

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2002· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2002Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2002).

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1999· 4 entries

Jun 15, 1999Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Robert J. Trumpler Award (1999).

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1999Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

For PhD theses of unusual importance to astronomy

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1999Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Moved to the Space Telescope Science Institute and took up a position at Johns Hopkins University in 2006

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1999Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And Harvard University's Bok Prize in 2001

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1998· 3 entries

1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

And Riess was jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Schmidt and Perlmutter for their groundbreaking work

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1998Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

For the High-z Supernova Search Team which first reported evidence that the universe's expansion rate is accelerating through monitoring of Type Ia supernovae

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Jan 1, 1998Documented record79% confidence

Published “Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 16,310 times.

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1992· 1 entry

1992Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity

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1969· 1 entry

Dec 16, 1969Documented record86% confidence

Born 1969-12-16.

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1931· 1 entry

1931Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

His father, Michael Riess (1931–2007), served in the U.S.

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