The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Adam G. Riess
Born: 1969, Washington, DC, USA
AffiIiation at the time of the award: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Space Telescope Science
nstitute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant
supernovae"

$auI PerImutter
Born: 1959, Champaign-Urbana, L, USA
AffiIiation at the time of the award: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, University of
California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant
supernovae"

Brian P. $.hmidt
Born: 1967, Missoula, MT, USA
AffiIiation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant
supernovae"






The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011

an $he.htman
Born: 1941, Tel Aviv, srael
AffiIiation at the time of the award:Technion srael nstitute of Technology, Haifa, srael
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of quasicrystals"



The Nobel Prize in Economic science 2011

Thomas J. $argent
Born: 1943, Pasadena, CA, USA
AffiIiation at the time of the award:New York University, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macro economy"

Christopher A. $ims
Born: 1942, Washington, DC, USA
AffiIiation at the time of the award:Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prize motivation: "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macro economy"