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saul perlmutter during the nobel week 2011 uc berkeley/lbnl champaign-urbana , illinois , u.s. 200px american saul perlmutter
 physics 22 september 1959 accelerating universe / dark energy united states ernest in astronomy -lrb- 2006 -rrb- gruber prize in cosmology -lrb- orlando 2007 -rrb- nobel prize in physics -lrb- 2011 -rrb- breakthrough lawrence prize in fundamental physics -lrb- 2015 -rrb- award -lrb- 2002 -rrb- shaw prize nobel prize 2011-press conference kva-dsc 7744.jpg laura nelson -lrb- 1 child -rrb- saul perlmutter harvard -lrb- ab -rrb-
saul perlmutter

saul perlmutter -lrb- born september 22 , 1959 -rrb- is an american astrophysicist at the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and a professor of physics at the university of california , berkeley .
he is a member of the american academy of arts & sciences , and was elected a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science in 2003 .
he is also a member of the national academy of sciences .
perlmutter shared both 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 .
