SBS50: Fast Facts 2011

NOBEL PRIZE BRIAN SCHMIDT

Professor Brian Schmidt in Canberra, 2011. Credit: AAPIMAGE

Did you know that, in 2011, American Australian astrophysicist Brian Schmidt was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics? Working at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside of Canberra, Schmidt discovered that our universe is getting bigger, faster, not slowing down as most other scientists believed.


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