Brian Schmidt

: January 4, 2024
: Astrophysicist

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Full Name	Brian Schmidt
Occupation	Astrophysicist
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1967(1967-02-24)
Age	57
Birthplace	Missoula
Country	United States
Birth City	Montana
Horoscope	Aquarius

Brian Schmidt Biography

Name	Brian Schmidt
Birthday	Feb 24
Birth Year	1967
Place Of Birth	Missoula
Home Town	Montana
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Aquarius
Spouse	Jennifer M. Gordon
Children(s)	Adrian Schmidt, Kieran Schmidt

Brian Schmidt is one of the most popular and richest Astrophysicist who was born on February 24, 1967 in Missoula, Montana, United States. Astrophysicist, who won in 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that the universe expands at an exponential rate. He was awarded an award from the Australian Academy of Sciences’ Pawsey Medal Medal ten years prior to.

He as well as He and Clifford Shull have both won the Nobel Prizes in Physics. have both received each of the Nobel Prizes in Physics.

Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS, FAA (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in

Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, making him the only Montana-born Nobel laureate.

Schmidt attended Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, and graduated in

He has said that he wanted to be a meteorologist “since I was about five-years-old [but] … I did some work at the USA National Weather Service up in Anchorage and didn’t enjoy it very much. It was less scientific, not as exciting as I thought it would be—there was a lot of routine. But I guess I was just a little naive about what being a meteorologist meant.” His decision to study astronomy, which he had seen as “a minor pastime”, was made just before he enrolled at university. Even then, he was not fully committed: he said “I’ll do astronomy and change into something else later”, and just never made that change.

He met his bride, Jennifer M. Gordon in Harvard.

Brian Schmidt Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Astrophysicist
House	Living in own house.

Brian Schmidt is one of the richest Astrophysicist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brian Schmidt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1993.

He is a distinguished professor and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Schmidt, an only child, was born on 24 February 1967, in Missoula, Montana, where his father Dana C. Schmidt was a fisheries biologist. When he was 13, his family relocated to Anchorage, Alaska.

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Who is Brian Schmidt Dating?

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Schmidt and the other members of the High-Z Team (the set defined by the co- authors of Riess et al. 1998) shared the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, a $500,000 award, with Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Supernova Cosmology Project (the set defined by the co- authors of Perlmutter et al. 1999) for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

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Brian Ranked on the list of most popular Astrophysicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Brian Schmidt celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

Schmidt has received the Australian Government’s inaugural Malcolm McIntosh Prize for achievement in the Physical Sciences in 2000, Harvard University’s Bok Prize in 2000, the Australian Academy of Science’s Pawsey Medal Medal in 2001, and the Astronomical Society of India’s Vainu Bappu Medal in 2002. He was the Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecturer in 2005, the same year he received an ARC Federation Fellowship, and in 2006 he shared the Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. In 2009, he was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship.

Why did Brian Schmidt get a Nobel Prize?

Professor Schmidt shared in the Nobel Prize for Physics for his part in proving the acceleration of the expanding universe. He was told he had five minutes to prepare to speak to a live press conference.

How did Brian Schmidt discover dark energy?

Brian, based at the Australian National University, found this unexpected expansion by looking at a specific type of exploding star called type 1a supernova. His team measured the distances of many of them. The younger and closer ones were where they were expected to be.