Brian Schmidt

Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University

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Brian Schmidt Biography

Brian Schmidt is Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and the 12th Vice Chancellor and President of the Australian National University. Brian was raised in Montana and Alaska, USA, and received undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1989. Under the supervision of Robert Kirshner, he completed his Astronomy Master's degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. In 1994 he and Nick Suntzeff formed the HighZ SN Search team, a group of 20 astronomers on 5 continents who used distant exploding stars to trace the expansion of the Universe back in time. This group's discovery of an accelerating Universe was named Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year for 1998. Brian Schmidt joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995, and was awarded the Australian Government's inaugural Malcolm McIntosh award for achievement in the Physical Sciences in 2000, The Australian Academy of Sciences Pawsey Medal in 2001, the Astronomical Society of India's Vainu Bappu Medal in 2002, and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2005. In 2006 Schmidt was jointly awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy, and shared the 2007 Gruber Prize for Cosmology and 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Physics with his High-Z SN Search Team colleagues. For his work on the accelerating universe Brian Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, Royal Society, Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences. In 2013, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. Brian also runs Maipenrai Vineyard and Winery, a 2.7 acre vineyard and small winery in the Canberra District which produces Pinot Noir.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/18/2024.

Brian Schmidt Videos

  • Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change - YouTube
    Brian Schmidt presenting the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change at the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
  • "The Discovery of Cosmic Acceleration" Lecture by Prof. Brian ...
    Jointly hosted by the Queensland University of Technology and the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, this event featured Prof. Brian Schmidt, a ...
  • The accelerating Universe: Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt - YouTube
    In 1998 two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating. It was a startling ...

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