What prize did Brian Schmidt win in 2006?
Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Nobel Prize in Physics
MacArthur Foundation Grant
Einstein Medal
Answer
Brian Schmidt won the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2006 for his contributions to the study of the accelerating expansion of the universe. He and two colleagues, Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter, discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, rather than decelerating, as previously thought. This discovery was a major breakthrough in cosmology and helped to confirm the existence of dark energy.
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