Editing Saul Perlmutter (section)

{{Short description|American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1959)}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name             = Saul Perlmutter
|image            = Saul Perlmutter 375e309 by Christopher Michel 8202024 01.jpg
|caption          = Perlmutter in 2024
|birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1959|09|22|mf=y}}
|birth_place      = [[Champaign-Urbana]], [[Illinois]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|relatives        = [[Shira Perlmutter]] (sister)
|field            = [[Physics]]
|work_institution = [[University of California, Berkeley]]/[[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]
|education        = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])<br> [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
|thesis_title     = An Astrometric Search for a Stellar Companion to the Sun
|thesis_url       = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303395845/
|thesis_year      = 1986   
|doctoral_advisor = [[Richard A. Muller]]<ref name="Goldhaber09">{{cite conference |last=Goldhaber |first=Gerson |author-link=Gerson Goldhaber |title=The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: A Brief Early History of the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) |conference=Proceedings of the 8th UCLA Dark Matter Symposium |volume=1166 |pages=53–72 |arxiv=0907.3526 |bibcode=2009AIPC.1166...53G |doi=10.1063/1.3232196|year=2009 |s2cid=15163786 }}</ref>
|doctoral_students=<!--please insert-->
|known_for        = [[Accelerating universe]] / [[Dark energy]]
|prizes           = [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award]] (2002)<br>[[Shaw Prize|Shaw Prize in Astronomy]] (2006)<br>[[Gruber Prize in Cosmology]] (2007)<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2011)<br>[[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] (2015)
|spouse=Laura Nelson (1 child)
}}

'''Saul Perlmutter''' (born September 22, 1959) is an American [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]] who is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]. He is a member of both the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Saul+Perlmutter&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-03-12|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> and was elected a [[Fellow of the AAAS|Fellow]] of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] in 2003.  He is a member of the [[List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physics)|National Academy of Sciences]]. Perlmutter shared the 2006 [[Shaw Prize|Shaw Prize in Astronomy]], the [[2011 Nobel Prize in Physics]], and the 2015 [[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] with [[Brian P. Schmidt]] and [[Adam Riess]] for providing evidence that the [[Accelerating universe|expansion of the universe is accelerating]]. Since 2021, he has been a member of the [[President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] (PCAST).<ref>{{cite web|title=President Biden Announces Members of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/22/president-biden-announces-members-of-presidents-council-of-advisors-on-science-and-technology/|website=[[White House]]|date=22 September 2021 |access-date=2022-08-18}}</ref>