Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Adam Riess wins $3M Breakthrough Prize

Adam Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and a Nobel laureate, has been named a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of the acceleration of the universe.

Riess received the award, the most lucrative academic prize in the world, at a ceremony in California on Sunday. He shares the honor with Saul Perlmutter, and astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley; and Brian P. Schmidt, of the Australian National University. The three scientists' years of research found that the universe is expanding quickly rather than slowing down as had been assumed for years.

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