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Adam Riess

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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 Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Riess has been at the center of a growing scientific debate about the so-called “Hubble tension” — a discrepancy between measurements of the universe’s expansion rate using nearby supernovae, and measurements inferred from the cosmic microwave background radiation using the Standard Model of cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Riess is the 482nd most popular astronomer (down from 312th in 2019), the 7,281st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,512th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adam Riess ranks 482 out of 644. Before him are Lyudmila Karachkina, Dilhan Eryurt, David L. Rabinowitz, Richard Schorr, William Frederick Denning, and Otto Heckmann. After him are Patrick Moore, Lutz D. Schmadel, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Edward S. Holden, Walter Frederick Gale, and Mary Watson Whitney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Adam Riess ranks 217. Before him are Spike Jonze, Muriel Barbery, Stephen Hendry, Daniel Fonseca, Cosmin Olăroiu, and Ben Mendelsohn. After him are Erlend Loe, José Chamot, Lucy Hawking, Wagner Lopes, Mana, and Uhm Jung-hwa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 7,283 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Preston (1918), David Spade (1964), Albert William Herre (1868), Jack Irons (1962), Smedley Butler (1881), and Freddie Spencer (1961). After him are Lewis Arquette (1935), Noah Emmerich (1965), Wendell Willkie (1892), Armand Duplantis (1999), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), and Henry Thomas (1971).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Adam Riess ranks 92. Before him are Paul W. Merrill (1887), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Joel Stebbins (1878), William Wilson Morgan (1906), Carolyn Porco (1953), and David L. Rabinowitz (1960). After him are Edward S. Holden (1846), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), Cleveland Abbe (1838), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Margaret Harwood (1885), and Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898).

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