Brian Schmidt

Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS, FAA is the ViceChancellor of The Australian National University . He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the Universitys Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and he is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, making him the only Montanaborn Nobel laureate. In June 2015, his appointment as the next ViceChancellor of the Australian National University, commencing in January 2016, was announced.

Schmidt, an only child, was born on February 24, 1967, in Missoula, Montana, where his father Dana C. Schmidt was a fisheries biologist. When he was 13, his family relocated to Anchorage, Alaska.

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