Saul Perlmutter

The Associated Press The Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter was awakened by a telephone call from a reporter in Sweden asking the California physicist for his reaction. "How do I feel about what?" the 52-year-old Perlmutter asked before dawn from his Berkeley home. His wife then looked at the computer and told him it wasn't a hoax. "Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call," Perlmutter told The Associated...Read Full Story

The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek (56) Publication Date: October 18, 2011 Buy new: $11.64 25 used & new from $10.62 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Physics list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.   In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to...Read Full Story

The expansion of the universe is something known since 1929 . Edwin Hubble showed, but this phenomenon is a discovery is accelerated by three American scientists , who thus won the Nobe Prize in Physics l 2011. The discovery of Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, emphasizes the search for components, especially energy and dark matter , whose presence in 96 percent of the Cosmos is inferred, but has not been detected directly, noted experts at a symposium on the subject, held at the...Read Full Story

Physics is considered to be the most basic of the natural sciences. It deals with the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions as well as the nature of atoms and the build-up of molecules and condensed matter. It tries to give unified descriptions of the behavior of matter as well as of radiation, covering as many types of phenomena as possible. In some of its applications, it comes close to the classical areas of chemistry, and in others there is a clear connection to the...Read Full Story

Johns Hopkins University; University Of California At Berkeley; Australian National University From left, Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt shared the Nobel Prize in physics awarded Tuesday. Three astronomers won the Nobel prize on Tuesday for discovering that the universe is apparently being blown apart by a mysterious force that cosmologists now call dark energy . They are Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., Brian P. Schmidt...Read Full Story