Adam Riess

Adam Riess
Riess in 2011
Born	Adam Guy Riess (1969-12-16) December 16, 1969 (age 54) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
Known for	Accelerating universe / dark energy, Hubble constant
Spouse	Nancy Joy Schondorf (m. 1998)
Awards	Robert J. Trumpler Award (1999)[1] Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2002) Sackler Prize for Physics (2004)[1] Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006) Nobel Prize in Physics (2011) Albert Einstein Medal (2011) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Johns Hopkins University / Space Telescope Science Institute
Thesis	Type Ia Supernova Multicolor Light Curve Shapes (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Kirshner, William H. Press

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.