Brian Schmidt
Brian Schmidt
Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS, FAAis the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University. He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and he is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Societyin 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 February 1967
CountryAustralia
I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.
I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.
Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.
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