Professor Brian Schmidt. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
The Australian National University is celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Brian Schmidt. Announced in Stockholm, Sweden overnight, the award is shared with two US scientists - Professor Adam Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Professor Saul Perlmutter from the University of California, Berkeley. ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young said: "The ANU community is overjoyed to hear the news that Professor Brian Schmidt has won the Nobel Prize for Physics. "Brian's work on the expansion of the universe has changed the face of astronomy. "His work has helped to unveil a universe that, to a large extent, was unknown to science. "He has shown that what we see in the skies is but a tiny fraction of what is really out there. "Brian reminds us of the infinite mysteries yet to be understood.
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