Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astropheesicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Naitional Laboratory an a professor o pheesics at the Varsity o Californie, Berkeley. He is a member o the American Academy o Airts & Sciences, an wis electit a Fellae o the American Association for the Advancement o Science in 2003. He is an aa member o the Naitional Academy o Sciences. Perlmutter shared baith the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy an the 2011 Nobel Prize in Pheesics wi Brian P. Schmidt an Adam Riess for providin evidence that the expansion o the universe is acceleratin.

Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter durin the Nobel week 2011
Born	(1959-09-22) 22 September 1959 (age 65) Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Residence	Unitit States
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Harvard (AB) UC Berkeley (PhD)
Kent for	Acceleratin universe / Dark energy
Hauf-marrae(s)	Laura Nelson (1 child)
Awairds	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awaird (2002) Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2007) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	UC Berkeley/LBNL
Doctoral advisor	Richard A. Muller[1]