From: Marc Postman (postman@stsci.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 06:46:13 PDT
Congratulations to our fearless (and now rich!) leader. Well
deserved, Saul.
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>
> Announcement of The Shaw Laureates 2006
>
> Wednesday, June 21. At today's press conference in Hong Kong, The
> Shaw Prize Foundation announced The Shaw Laureates for 2006.
> Information was posted on the website www.shawprize.org at Hong Kong
> time 16:30 (GMT 08:30).
>
> The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life
> Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each prize bearing a
> monetary award of one million US dollars. This will be the third year
> that the Prize has been awarded and the presentation ceremony is
> scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, 2006.
>
> Details of the Shaw Laureates
>
> Astronomy prize awarded jointly to Professor Saul Perlmutter of the
> Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California,
> Berkeley, USA; Professor Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science
> Institute, Baltimore, USA; and Professor Brian Schmidt of the Mount
> Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University, Canberra,
> Australia for discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is
> accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy
> density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter
> and radiation.
>
> Announcement of The Shaw Laureates 2006
>
> Wednesday, June 21. At today¡¦s press conference in Hong Kong, The
> Shaw Prize Foundation announced The Shaw Laureates for 2006.
> Information was posted on the website www.shawprize.org at Hong
> Kong time 16:30 (GMT 08:30).
>
> The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life
> Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each prize bearing
> a monetary award of one million US dollars. This will be the third
> year that the Prize has been awarded and the presentation ceremony
> is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12, 2006.
>
> Details of the Shaw Laureates
>
> Astronomy ¡V awarded jointly to Professor Saul Perlmutter of the
> Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California,
> Berkeley, USA; Professor Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science
> Institute, Baltimore, USA; and Professor Brian Schmidt of the Mount
> Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University,
> Canberra, Australia for discovering that the expansion rate of the
> universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation
> that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the
> absence of any matter and radiation.
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