Which prize did Schmidt share in 2011?
Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Literature
Pulitzer Prize
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics was shared in 2011 by Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter for their discoveries about the expansion of the universe. Schmidt, Riess, and Perlmutter were awarded the prize for their work on supernovae, which are exploding stars that can be used to measure the expansion of the universe.
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