Adam Riess

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Adam Riess
Hubble Constant
SpouseNancy Joy Schondorf (m. 1998)
AwardsRobert J. Trumpler Award (1999)[1]
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2002)
Sackler Prize for Physics (2004)[1]
Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2011)
Albert Einstein Medal (2011)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorRobert Kirshner, William H. Press

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American

expansion of the universe is accelerating
.

Family

Riess was born in

Jewish.[7] Adam Riess has two sisters – Gail Saltz
, a psychiatrist, and Holly Hagerman, an artist. Riess married Nancy Joy Schondorf in 1998.

Education

He attended

Type Ia supernovae and a method to utilize Type Ia supernovae as accurate distance indicators by correcting for intervening dust and intrinsic inhomogeneities. Riess's PhD thesis was supervised by Robert Kirshner and William H. Press and won the Robert J. Trumpler Award in 1999 for PhD theses of unusual importance to astronomy.[9]

Research

Riess was a

Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1996 through 1999, during which period his first seminal paper on the discovery of an accelerating universe was published.[10] In 1999, he moved to the Space Telescope Science Institute and took up his current position at Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He also sits on the selection committee for the Astronomy award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize. In July 2016, Riess was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching the next generation of scholars.[10] The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established in 2013 by a gift from Michael Bloomberg.[11]

Riess jointly led the study with

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Schmidt and Perlmutter for their groundbreaking work.[12]

From 2002-2007 Riess led the Higher-Z SN Team which used the Hubble Space Telescope to find dozens of type Ia supernovae at z>1, first demonstrating that the expansion of the Universe was decelerating before it began accelerating and ruling out astrophysical contamination of SN Ia.[14]

Riess is also known for his efforts to measure the local value of the Hubble constant while leading the SH0ES Team since 2005 with measurements that approach 1% precision and which indicate a discrepancy with the model-based prediction from the CMB, a problem widely known in Cosmology as the

Hubble Tension.[15][16]

Awards and honors

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
.

Riess received the

Helen B. Warner Prize in 2003 and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Physics in 2004 for the discovery of cosmic acceleration.[17]

In 2006, he shared the $1 million

acceleration of the universe.[18]

Schmidt and all the members of the High-Z Team (as defined by the co-authors of Riess et al. 1998) shared the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, a $500,000 award, with the Supernova Cosmology Project (the set defined by the co-authors of Perlmutter et al. 1999) for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. Riess was the winner of MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2008. He was also elected in 2009 to the National Academy of Sciences.[19]

Along with Perlmutter and Schmidt, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.[18]

Riess, along with

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.[20]

In 2012, Riess received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[21]

In 2020, Riess was made fellow of the American Astronomical Society.[22]

Controversies

In the book The 4 Percent Universe, scientific journalist Richard Panek claimed that Riess made improper use of the supernova data collected by the Calán/Tololo Survey, publishing them prior to the authors and without their permission.[23] However, a later account, benefiting from access to the contemporary email threads of the participants, contradicts this claim.[24] The claim is also doubtful in light of the received dates and acknowledgements in the relevant publications.[25][26]

Media appearances

Riess participated on the NPR radio quiz program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! in 2011.[27]

Publications

Riess has more than 87,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 99. His most cited work, "Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant," has been cited over 20,000 times.[28] Riess has been among the top 1% most cited in the world for subject field and year of publication in the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers reports for multiple years, including 2016 and 2020.[29][30]

Highly cited articles (more than 1900 citations)

  • 1998 with V Filippenko, P Challis, A Clocchiatti, A Diercks, et al., Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant, in: The Astronomical Journal. Vol. 116, nº 3; 1009.
  • 2009 with KN Abazajian, JK Adelman-McCarthy, MA Agüeros, SS Allam, CA Prieto, et al., The seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. Vol. 182, nº 2; 543.
  • 2004 with LG Strolger, J Tonry, S Casertano, HC Ferguson, B Mobasher, et al., Type Ia supernova discoveries at z> 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution, in: The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 607, nº 2; 665.
  • 2007 with JK Adelman-McCarthy, MA Agüeros, SS Allam, KSJ Anderson, et al., The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. Vol. 172, nº 2; 634.
  • 2003 with JL Tonry, BP Schmidt, B Barris, P Candia, P Challis, A Clocchiatti, AL Coil, et al., Cosmological results from high-z supernovae, in: The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 594, nº 1; 1.
  • 2007 with LG Strolger, S Casertano, HC Ferguson, B Mobasher, B Gold, et al., New Hubble space telescope discoveries of type Ia supernovae at z≥ 1: narrowing constraints on the early behavior of dark energy, in: The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 659, nº 1; 98.
  • 1998 with BP Schmidt, NB Suntzeff, MM Phillips, RA Schommer, A Clocchiatti, et al., The high-Z supernova search: measuring cosmic deceleration and global curvature of the universe using type Ia supernovae, in: The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 507, nº 1; 46.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Jain, Chelsi. "Awards List extended using a reliable source".
  2. ^ "WEDDINGS; Nancy Schondorf And Adam Riess". The New York Times. January 11, 1998.
  3. ^ Wedding: Drs. Gail Michele Riess and Leonard Bruce Saltz. Nytimes.com (June 18, 1989). Retrieved on April 2, 2012.
  4. ^ Chasing the Great Beyond. Jhu.edu (January 12, 1998). Retrieved on April 2, 2012.
  5. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (May 21, 1993). "Curt Riess, Author And Journalist, 90; Expert on Nazi Era". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Obituary: Michael Riess. New York Times (October 11, 2007). Retrieved on April 2, 2012.
  7. ^ "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: December 15, 2017". Haaretz.
  8. Daily Record (Morristown)
    , October 4, 2011. Accessed October 5, 2011. "Riess, who grew up in Warren, gave a shout-out to retired teacher Jeff Charney, saying his interest in science first was piqued at Watchung Hills."
  9. ISBN 978-0-618-98244-8
    ., pg. 174
  10. ^ a b Messersmith, Julie. "Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 8 July 2016. Retrieved on 13 July 2016.
  11. ^ "Michael R. Bloomberg Commits $350 Million to Johns Hopkins for Transformational Academic Initiative 2013".
  12. ^ a b c d Palmer, Jason (October 4, 2011). "Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find". BBC. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  13. S2CID 220092189
    . Retrieved November 27, 2020.
  14. ^ Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope
  15. ^ A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant
  16. ^ A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s-1 Mpc-1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team
  17. ^ "Past Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics". Tel Aviv University. September 5, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  18. ^ a b "Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find". BBC News. October 4, 2011.
  19. ^ Newsroom. National-Academies.org (April 28, 2009). Retrieved on April 2, 2012.
  20. ^ "Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates – Adam Riess and the High-z Supernova Search Team". Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  21. American Academy of Achievement
    .
  22. ^ "Four Johns Hopkins faculty members named American Astronomical Society fellows". The Hub. Johns Hopkins University. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  23. ISBN 978-0-618-98244-8
    .
  24. ISBN 9781312453210
    .
  25. S2CID 118938423
    .
  26. doi:10.1086/117251
    .
  27. NPR
  28. ^ "Adam Riess". scholar.google.com. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  29. ^ "13 Johns Hopkins scientists among most cited researchers in the world". The Hub. November 18, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  30. ^ "Adam G. Riess". Web of Science Group. Retrieved May 19, 2021.

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