Discover how two rival scientific teams completely overthrew conventional astrophysical wisdom. In this six and a half minute podcast, CSIRO’s Dr Brian Boyle explains how the two teams won the prestigious 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize after proving the expansion of the universe is speeding up. (6:34)
Dr Brian Boyle, Director of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility, is one of a group of scientists who will share the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, worth US$500,000.
This year’s Prize has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter (University of California Berkeley) and Brian Schmidt (Australian National University) and their teams, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search team, for their discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.
In this six and a half minute podcast, Dr Boyle explains the discovery and what it means for astronomy.
Read more about “Accidental revolutionaries” net US$500,000 cosmology prize (Media release 17 Jul 07).
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