Editing Saul Perlmutter (section)

== Education ==
Saul Perlmutter was born to Felice (Feige) D. Perlmutter (née Davidson), professor emerita of the [[Temple University]] School of Social Administration, and [[Daniel D. Perlmutter]], professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbe.seas.upenn.edu/about-people/faculty/profile-perlmutter.php|title=CBE Faculty – Daniel D. Perlmutter|work=upenn.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bulletin.brynmawr.edu/archways/gsswsr-august-2011/|title=Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research – Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin|work=brynmawr.edu}}</ref> His maternal grandfather, the [[Yiddish]] teacher Samuel Davidson (1903–1989), emigrated from the [[Bessarabia]]n town of [[Floreşti, Moldova|Floreşti]] to [[Canada]] in 1919 and then with his wife Chaika Newman to [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1989-12-05/news/26157213_1_yiddish-culture-yiddish-language-jewish-cultural-organization|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005031748/http://articles.philly.com/1989-12-05/news/26157213_1_yiddish-culture-yiddish-language-jewish-cultural-organization|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2013|title=Samuel Davidson; Led Yiddish Culture Revival|work=philly-archives}}</ref>

Perlmutter spent his childhood in the [[Mount Airy, Philadelphia|Mount Airy]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia]]. He went to Quaker schools in nearby [[Germantown, Philadelphia|Germantown]]; first [[Greene Street Friends School]] for the elementary grades, followed by [[Germantown Friends School]] for grades seven through twelve.<ref>{{cite news |title=Astrophysicist with Philly roots awarded Nobel Prize |author=Tom Avril |url=http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-04/news/30242928_1_astrophysicist-adam-riess-elementary-grades |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009010821/http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-04/news/30242928_1_astrophysicist-adam-riess-elementary-grades |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 9, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=October 4, 2011 |access-date=October 11, 2011}}</ref> He graduated with an AB in physics from [[Harvard]] ''magna cum laude'' in 1981 and received his PhD in physics from [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] in 1986. Perlmutter's PhD thesis, entitled "An Astrometric Search for a Stellar Companion to the Sun" and supervised by [[Richard A. Muller]],<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI) Technical Reports, University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, UNT Libraries Government Documents Department|title=An Astrometric Search for a Stellar Companion to the Sun|author=Saul Perlmutter|osti = 6484337|doi = 10.2172/6484337|year = 1986|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1207884/|bibcode=1986PhDT........20P|postscript=; also published at Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy website (osti.gov)}}</ref> described the development and use of an automated telescope to search for [[Nemesis (hypothetical star)|Nemesis]] candidates.<ref name="Goldhaber09"/> At the same time, he was using this telescope to search for Nemesis and [[supernova]]e, which would lead him to his award-winning work in cosmology.<ref name="SAprofile">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=discovering-a-dark-universe|magazine=[[Scientific American]]|title=Discovering a Dark Universe: A Q&A with Saul Perlmutter|author=David Appell|date=April 21, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116023019/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=discovering-a-dark-universe|archive-date=November 16, 2011}}</ref> Perlmutter attributes the idea for an automated supernova search to [[Luis Walter Alvarez|Luis Alvarez]], a 1968 [[List of Nobel laureates in Physics|Nobel laureate]], who shared his idea with Perlmutter's research adviser.<ref name="SAprofile"/>