
About this episode
More than two decades ago, Adam Riess’s Nobel Prize-winning work fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe. His new work is reshaping cosmology for a second time.
- RESOURCES:
- Adam Riess, astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.
- SOURCES:
- "The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong," by Ross Andersen (The Atlantic, 2025).
- "The answer to life, the universe and everything might be 73. Or 67," by Hannah Devlin (The Guardian, 2018).
- "Adam G. Riess Nobel Prize Lecture," (The Nobel Foundation, 2011).
- "Breakthroughs 1998," by Floyd Bloom (Science, 1998).
- "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant," by Adam Riess, Alexei Filippenko, Peter Challis, Alejandro Clocchiatti, Alan Diercks, Peter Garnavich, Ron Gilliland, Craig Hogan, Saurabh Jha, Robert Kirshner, Bruno Leibundgut, Mark Phillips, David Reiss, Brian Schmidt, Robert Schommer, Chris Smith, Jason Spyromilio, Christopher Stubbs, Nicholas Suntzeff, and John Tonry (The Astronomical Journal, 1998).
- "1912: Henrietta Leavitt Discovers the Distance Key," (Carnegie Institution for Science).
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