Nobel Prize in physics, 2011
firstname: Saul
surname: Perlmutter
motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
firstname: Brian P.
surname: Schmidt
motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
firstname: Adam G.
surname: Riess
motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"