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Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was ele…
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science · American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1959) · physicist · astronomer · professor · astrophysicist · researcher · also Saul Perlmutter, Perlmutter
Born 22 September 1959 · Q106949
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Barcelona University (2019).
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2014).
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Perlmutter received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2011).
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Won Albert Einstein Medal (2011).
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Perlmutter and Riess were named co-recipients of the Albert Einstein Medal
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2010).
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Science (2010).
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Perlmutter was named a Miller Senior Fellow of the Miller Institute at the University of California Berkeley
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2007).
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2006· 4 entries
SpaceNews: Berkeley Lab’s Saul Perlmutter wins Shaw Prize in Astronomy
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Awarded The Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006).
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Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (2006).
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Shared the Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Adam Riess and Brian P
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (2005).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).
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Was awarded the California Scientist of the Year Award, and, in 2005, he won the John Scott Award and the Padua Prize
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2002).
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Perlmutter won the Department of Energy's E
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1999· 2 entries
Published “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 15,632 times.
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“Not only does it swallow anything that comes too near it but no one lives to tell the tale ... there are footprints leading in, and no footprints leading out ... If black holes weren’t real, I think the science-fiction writers would have wanted to invent them.”
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1986· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
And received his PhD in physics from Berkeley in 1986
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-09-22.
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1919· 1 entry
And then with his wife Chaika Newman to New York
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