Professor
Brian Schmidt
AC FAA FTSE FRS Nobel Laureate
Brian Schmidt is an internationally renowned researcher in cosmology and also in the physics of supernovae and gamma ray bursts. In particular, Schmidt’s formation and leadership of High-z Supernova Search Team led to the discovery that the expansion of our universe is accelerating. This discovery completely changed our understanding of the universe. It showed that 70% of the mass of our Universe is in a previously unknown form which is now usually referred to as ‘Dark Energy’.
Fields of research
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES-
5101
ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
- 510103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
- 510109 Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- Physics
- Dark Energy
- Astronomy
- Cosmology
- Earth Sciences
- Planetary Science
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