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Nobel Laureate Motivated by 'the Fate of the Universe'

October 4, 2011, 5:03 pm • Posted by Amy Standen
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Reported by Amy Standen and Gabriela Quirós, Quest At this morning's press conference at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, newly-minted Nobel laureate, astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter said what attracted him to his work initially was that it took a scientific approach to a … Continue reading »

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Video: UCB's Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Physics Winner, Explains How the Universe is Expanding

October 4, 2011, 12:47 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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UC Berkeley physics professor Saul Perlmutter was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics today for his work explaining how the universe is expanding. Perlmutter led Lawrence Berkeley Lab's Supernova Cosmology Project, which made the discovery in 1998. He … Continue reading »

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