Brian Schmidt

Brian Schmidt

AC FRS FAA FTSE
Brian Schmidt; AC FRS FAA FTSE
	Schmidt at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Born	Brian Schmidt; 24 February 1967; Missoula, Montana, ; United States
Nationality	American Australian
Citizenship	Australia;
Alma mater	University of Arizona (1989), Harvard University (1993)
Spouse	Jennifer M. Gordon
Awards	Pawsey Medal (2001); Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006); Australian Laureate Fellowship (2009); Nobel Prize in Physics (2011); FRS (2012); UNSW Dirac Medal (2012); AC (2013); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Australian National University
Thesis	Type II supernovae, expanding photospheres, and the extragalactic distance scale (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Kirshner
Website	www.mso.anu.edu.au/~brian/

Brian Paul Schmidt AC FRS FAA FTSE (born 24 February 1967) is a Distinguished Professor and astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

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