The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was partially awarded to which professor of physics from UC-Berkeley?
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2011. One half of it was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, head of the Supernova Cosmology Product at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the other half was awarded to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess, both leaders of the High-Z Supernova Team. Their prize was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."
John Henry Schwarz John Henry Schwarz ( ; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory.