The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

© ® The Nobel Foundation.     2011 Nobel Prize Winners Well Represented in AIP Conference Proceedings Series   One half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California; the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt of the Australian National University in Weston Creek, Australia and to Adam G. Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." The results of the prize-winning research—that the expansion of the universe itself is accelerating, surprised many scientists given that astronomers previously believed that the expansion of the universe would slow down and eventually reverse, leading to a so-called "Big Crunch"—a violent end in which the universe would collapse into a singularity. The researchers used measurements of a particular type of supernova, called Type Ia, to measure the expansion rate of the universe over time. Both Perlmutter's group and Schmidt & Riess's group independently produced data that were nearly identical. Taken together, these results provide compelling evidence that our ideas about the way the universe works are valid.

Access Conference Proceedings Articles by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess—Co-Recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Notable research highlights appear in AIP Conference Proceedings as noted below:

The Nearby Supernova Factory dataset-improving SNe Ia as dark energy probes
R. Pereira, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, S. Loken, P. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, H. K. Fakhouri, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, and C. Wu
AIP Conf. Proc. 1241, 259 (2010)

Seeing Dark Energy
A. G. Riess
AIP Conf. Proc. 1241, 13 (2010)

Cepheid Variables in the Antennae
Joy M. Chavez, Lucas M. Macri, Adam G. Riess, and Anne Pellerin
AIP Conf. Proc. 1170, 29 (2009)

The SH0ES Project: Observations of Cepheids in NGC 4258 and Type Ia SN Hosts
Lucas M. Macri and Adam G. Riess (SH0ES team)
AIP Conf. Proc. 1170, 23 (2009)

Seeing Dark Energy 10 Years Later
Adam G. Riess (High-z Teams Higher-z Teams)
AIP Conf. Proc. 1166, 73 (2009)

The Supernova Type Ia Rate Evolution with SNLS
James D. Neill, M. Sullivan, D. Balam, C. J. Pritchet, D. A. Howell, K. Perrett, P. Astier, E. Aubourg, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, A. Conley, S. Fabbro, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, I. Hook, R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, N. Regnault, J. Rich, R. Taillet, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, V. Arsenijevic, C. Balland, S. Baumont, J. Bronder, R. S. Ellis, M. Filiol, A. C. Gonçalves, D. Hardin, M. Kowalski, C. Lidman, V. Lusset, M. Mouchet, A. Mourao, S. Perlmutter, P. Ripoche, D. Schlegel, and C. Tao
AIP Conf. Proc. 924, 421 (2007)

The Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2005hk
V. Stanishev, S. Taubenberger, G. Blanc, G. C. Anupama, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, N. Elias-Rosa, C. Féron, A. Goobar, K. Krisciunas, A. Pastorello, D. K. Sahu, M. E. Salvo, B. P. Schmidt, J. Sollerman, C. C. Thöne, M. Turatto, and W. Hillebrandt
AIP Conf. Proc. 924, 336 (2007)

Type Ia supernova diversity: Standardizing the candles
Tamara M. Davis, J. Berian James, Brian P. Schmidt, and Alex G. Kim
AIP Conf. Proc. 924, 330 (2007)

Kinematics and Dark Energy from Supernovae at z > 1
Adam G. Riess
AIP Conf. Proc. 743, 3 (2004)

Towards Measuring the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Rate
Paul A. Price and Brian P. Schmidt
AIP Conf. Proc. 727, 503 (2004)

Rapid Identification of Optical Afterglows: Bright Prospects
Paul A. Price, Brian P. Schmidt, and Tim S. Axelrod
AIP Conf. Proc. 662, 541 (2003)

Supernovae, dark energy, and the accelerating universe: What next?
Saul Perlmutter
AIP Conf. Proc. 596, 253 (2001)

Evidence from Type Ia supernovae for an accelerating universe
Alexei V. Filippenko and Adam G. Riess
AIP Conf. Proc. 540, 227 (2000)

A high peculiarity rate for Type Ia SNe
W. D. Li, A. V. Filippenko, A. G. Riess, R. R. Treffers, J. Y. Hu, and Y. L. Qiu
AIP Conf. Proc. 522, 91 (2000)

Cosmological parameters from supernovae: Two groups' results agree
Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess
AIP Conf. Proc. 478, 129 (1999)

A one-meter aperture wide-field camera for the Japanese exposure module on space station
Carl Pennypacker et al.
AIP Conf. Proc. 458, 176 (1999)

A search for gamma-ray burst optical emission with the automated patrol telescope
Bruce Grossan, Saul Perlmutter, and Michael Ashley
AIP Conf. Proc. 428, 909 (1998)

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