Astronomer Adam Riess sits in his office at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in September 2008. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Saul Perlmutter, U.S.-Australian citizen Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess share the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. The trio were honored Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 "for the discovery of the acclerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae." (AP Photo/The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Gail Burton)
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