Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Perlmutter has received more than 358,755 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Saul Perlmutter is the 435th most popular physicist (up from 466th in 2019), the 3,329th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,707th in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Physicist.