Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate
Australian National University
Missoula, MT
Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian 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
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Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian 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.
Affiliation
Australian National University
Top Publications
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant (1998) - 19,674 citations
- Cosmological Results from High‐zSupernovae (2003) - 1,737 citations
- The High‐Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae (1998) - 1,513 citations
- The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the nepoch of deceleration (2001) - 958 citations
- Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey (2007) - 922 citations
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- Full name
- Brian P. Schmidt
- Born
- 1967-02-24
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-8538-9195
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5023063594
Research interests
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
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- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant ↗1998 · The Astronomical Journal19,674OpenAlex citations
- Cosmological Results from High‐zSupernovae ↗2003 · The Astrophysical Journal1,737OpenAlex citations
- The High‐Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae ↗1998 · The Astrophysical Journal1,513OpenAlex citations
- The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the nepoch of deceleration ↗2001 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)958OpenAlex citations
- Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey ↗2007 · The Astrophysical Journal922OpenAlex citations
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- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant ↗1998 · The Astronomical Journal
- Cosmological Results from High‐zSupernovae ↗2003 · The Astrophysical Journal
- The High‐Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae ↗1998 · The Astrophysical Journal
- The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the nepoch of deceleration ↗2001 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)
- Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey ↗2007 · The Astrophysical Journal
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2011) — for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
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