Dark energy discovery wins physics Nobel (page 2)
Three scientists share Nobel Prize in Physics for research showing the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rateScientists who watched stars explode in faraway galaxies and deduced that the universe was expanding at an ever-faster rate have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.The discovery in the late 1990s meant textbooks had to be rewritten and forced researchers to consider a universe of stars and planets that is being torn apart by a mysterious force that counteracts gravity.The nature of the force that drives the growth of the cosmos is so mysterious that scientists named it "dark energy". It is thought to make up more than 70% of the universe.Half of the 10 million Swedish kronor (?934,000) prize money went to the US physicist Saul Perlmutter, 52, and the other half to two members of a competing team that conducted similar work, the US-born researcher Brian Schmidt, 44, who is based in Australia, and another US scientist, Adam Riess, aged 42.The award was greeted with widespread approval from scientis
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from ScienceNews
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from BBC News
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from Phys.org
Three Americans Share 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Wed 5 Oct 11 from FOXNews
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from L.A. Times
Australian Nobel winner thought prize call was a prank
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from Reuters
Nobel Physics Prize: Astronomers win for insights into expanding universe
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from Telegraph.co.uk Science
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 shared by Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess
Half of the $1.5 million prize money went to American Saul Perlmutter and the rest to two members of a second team which conducted similar work.
Tue 4 Oct 11 from Daily Mail
Nobel prize for discovery that the universe is accelerating into the void
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from Guardian.co.uk
Dark Energy Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
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Tue 4 Oct 11 from Popular Science
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