Saul Perlmutter

Awards

1. 2006

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy

   Physics

   For discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.

2. 2011

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae

3. 2015

   Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

   Physics

   For the most unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, rather than slowing as had been long assumed.