Berkeley Lab’s Saul Perlmutter Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2011
Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Physics Division and the University of California at Berkeley has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae. Perlmutter heads the international Supernova Cosmology Project, founded at Berkeley Lab. Perlmutter shares the prize with Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, members of the High-Z Supernova research team, who simultaneously obtained quite similar results indicating that the expansion of the universe is not slowing, but accelerating.
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Announcing the First Results from Daya Bay: Discovery of a New Kind of Neutrino Transformation
Knowing how different kinds of neutrinos mix and change could reveal their masses, explore differences between neutrinos and antineutrinos, and explain why there is any matter at all in the universe
March 07, 2012
From its beginnings in 2006, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has established new scientific milestones as the first equal partnership between the U.S. and China in a major physics project. Co-led by personnel from both nations, the collaboration has benefited from monetary support, technical expertise, and intellectual contributions from over 40 institutions in countries around the world.
