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News Release 11-217
2011 Nobel Prize Winners Announced
New Laureates include NSF-affiliated researchers in Physics and Economics
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Five of the 2011 Nobel Laureates have conducted research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)--Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess received the Nobel Prize in Physics; and Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims received the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Credit: NSF
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Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter describes his Nobel-prize-winning research showing that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate as a result of the mysterious force of dark energy.
Credit: University of California Berkeley
Brian P. Schmidt, one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Adam G. Riess, one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Credit: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Thomas J. Sargent, one of the winners of the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences.
Credit: Courtesy of NYU's Stern School of Business
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Christopher A. Sims, one of the winners of the 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences.
Credit: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite (2006)
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