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Adam Riess

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Also known as: Adam Guy Riess
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Adam Guy Riess
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December 16, 1969, Washington, D.C., U.S. (age 55)
Awards And Honors:
Nobel Prize (2011)
Subjects Of Study:
dark energy
dark matter
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Adam Riess (born December 16, 1969, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American astronomer who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of dark energy, a repulsive force that is the dominant component (73 percent) of the universe. He shared the prize with physicist Saul Perlmutter and astronomer Brian Schmidt. Riess wrote articles on dark energy and dark matter for the Encyclopædia Britannica. Riess received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. He received a master’s (1994) and a doctoral degree (1996) in astrophysics from Harvard University, where he shared an ...(100 of 344 words)

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