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Saul Perlmutter

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Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saul Perlmutter is the 427th most popular physicist (down from 425th in 2019), the 3,230th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,858th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Saul Perlmutter ranks 427 out of 851. Before him are Johann Andreas Segner, John Mauchly, Jules Jamin, Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, and Ányos Jedlik. After him are Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, Raoul Pictet, Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, and Boris Podolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Saul Perlmutter ranks 117. Before him are Majed Abdullah, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia Clarkson, László Kövér, Irene Cara, and Thomas Ravelli. After him are Linda Blair, Prithvirajsing Roopun, Rebecca De Mornay, Alessandro Nannini, Kokhir Rasulzoda, and Crin Antonescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saul Perlmutter ranks 3,230 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Rantz (1914), Sally Ride (1951), Keith Carradine (1949), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Suzanne Collins (1962), and Ronny Cox (1938). After him are Ann Savage (1921), Garrett Morgan (1877), Abe Vigoda (1921), Jack Daniel (1850), Mickey Cohen (1913), and Linda Blair (1959).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Saul Perlmutter ranks 88. Before him are Edwin Hall (1855), Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Robert W. Wood (1868), and John Mauchly (1907). After him are Alan Guth (1947), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), and Frank Oppenheimer (1912).

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