Tag: Saul Perlmutter

  • Nation & World

    Nobel origins

    All three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics have connections to Harvard — including two whose Ph.D.s launched them into their winning notion of an accelerating universe and the puzzle of dark matter.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard astronomers share dark prize

    Two teams who upset everyone’s ideas about how the universe works and its future will share the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize for discovering that 70 percent of the universe is nothing but a strange form of energy.

    4 minutes