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If you were to choose a career in science, what would you study? What would you hope to discover?
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Saul Perlmutter, a physics professor at UC Berkeley and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, was one of three scientists recently awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He led the Supernova Cosmology Project that, in 1998, discovered that galaxies are moving away from one another faster now than they were billions of years ago — meaning that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The cause of this expansion? Dark energy, which makes up about 73% of the universe. His dedication to his work and research as he deepens his knowledge of physics and the universe has lead him to such great achievement.
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QUEST segment Berkeley Lab Physicist Shares Nobel
Meet one of the three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Lawrence Berkeley Lab astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter. He explains how dark energy, which makes up 70 percent of the universe, is causing our universe to expand.
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