Brian Schmidt

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Brian Schmidt
AC FRS FAA FTSE
Schmidt at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
12th Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
In office
1 January 2016 – 31 December 2023
ChancellorGareth Evans
Julie Bishop
Preceded byIan Young
Succeeded byGenevieve Bell
Personal details
Born
Brian Schmidt

(1967-02-24) 24 February 1967 (age 57)
Missoula, Montana,
United States
Citizenship
NationalityAmerican Australian[1]
Alma materUniversity of Arizona (1989), Harvard University (1993)
SpouseJennifer M. Gordon
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsAustralian National University
ThesisType II supernovae, expanding photospheres, and the extragalactic distance scale (1993)
Doctoral advisorRobert Kirshner[3]
Doctoral studentsManisha Caleb
Schmidt's voice
recorded February 2016
Websitewww.mso.anu.edu.au/~brian/

Brian Paul Schmidt AC FRS FAA FTSE (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[4][5][6] He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024.[7][8][9] 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.[2] 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.

  1. ^ "The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics – Press Release". Nobel Foundation.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Brian Schmidt FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015.
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  4. ^ Brian P Schmidt – Curriculum Vitae
  5. ^ "with Brian Schmidt for Australian Astronomers oral history project, National Library of Australia". Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  6. ^ Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 Announcement
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