Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutteris an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.
You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.
This is the kind of discovery that resonates.
I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.
There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled
It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not
You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster