Tag: Scientists
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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of Dark Energy
This morning, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Permutter, Adam Riess, and Brian Schmidt. In 1998, two competing groups of astronomers were attempting to measure the rate at which the universe’s expansion was slowing. As Vesto Slipher and Edwin Hubble found in the 1920s, far galaxies are moving away from our…
Galileo's Pendulum 