3 Will Share Nobel in Physics

Three researchers will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." The three are:

• Saul Perlmutter, head of the Supernova Cosmology Project and professor of astrophysics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley.
• Brian P. Schmidt, head of the High-z Supernova Search Team and distinguished professor at the Australian National University.
• Adam G. Riess, professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University.