Brian P. Schmidt, Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

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 2012. 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.

Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS

Awards and honours

• 2000 - Harvard University's Bok Prize.
• 2000 - Australian Government's inaugural Malcolm McIntosh Prize for achievement in the Physical Sciences.
• 2001 - Australian Academy of Science's Pawsey Medal Medal.
• 2002 - Astronomical Society of India's Vainu Bappu Medal.
• 2005 - Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecturer.
• 2005 - ARC Federation Fellowship.
• 2006 - Shaw Prize in Astronomy (with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess).
• 2007 - Gruber Cosmology Prize, a $500,000 award (shared by the High-Z Team, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab & the Supernova Cosmology Project for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
• 2011 - Nobel Prize in Physics (with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess).
• 2011 - Called "Australian of the Year" for 2011 by The Australian newspaper.
• 2012 - Dirac Medal.
• 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
• 2013 - Appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (on Australia Day Honours)
• 2015 - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (with Adam Riess, and the High-Z Supernova Search Team).
• 2015 - Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour.

He is a Fellow and council member of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.