The Supernova Cosmology Project is one of
two research teams that determined the likelihood
of an accelerating universe and therefore
a positive cosmological constant, using data
from the redshift of Type Ia supernovae.
The project is headed by Saul Perlmutter at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with
members from Australia, Chile, France, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United States.
This discovery was named "Breakthrough of
the Year for 1998" by Science Magazine and,
along with the High-z Supernova Search Team,
the project team won the 2007 Gruber Prize
in Cosmology and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize
in Fundamental Physics.
In 2011, Perlmutter was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for this work, alongside
Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt from the High-z
team.
== Project Members ==
The team members are:
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Gregory Aldering, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Brian J. Boyle, Australia Telescope National
Facility
Shane Burns, Colorado College
Patricia G. Castro, Instituto Superior Técnico,
Lisbon
Warrick Couch, Swinburne University of Technology
Susana Deustua, American Astronomical Society
Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology
Sebastien Fabbro, Instituto Superior Técnico,
Lisbon
Alexei Filippenko, University of California,
Berkeley (later a member of the High-z Supernova
Search Team)
Andrew Fruchter, Space Telescope Science Institute
Gerson Goldhaber, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Ariel Goobar, University of Stockholm
Donald Groom, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Isobel Hook, University of Oxford
Mike Irwin, University of Cambridge
Alex Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew Kim
Robert Knop, Vanderbilt University
Julia C. Lee, Harvard University
Chris Lidman, European Southern Observatory
Thomas Matheson, NOAO Gemini Science Center
Richard McMahon, University of Cambridge
Richard Muller, University of California,
Berkeley
Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nelson Nunes, University of Cambridge
Reynald Pain, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris
Nino Panagia, Space Telescope Science Institute
Carl Pennypacker, University of California,
Berkeley
Robert Quimby, The University of Texas
Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, University of Barcelona
Bradley E. Schaefer, Louisiana State University
Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge
== References ==
== External links ==
Supernova Cosmology Project Mainsite
