People · researcher

Adam Riess

1969– · Cosmology

Lifespan

1969–

Field

Cosmology

Known For

Wrote up the accelerating-universe result, and now leads the distance-ladder side of the Hubble tension.

Nationality

American

Nobel

Physics 2011

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