Editing Saul Perlmutter (section)

== Awards and recognition ==
[[Image:Shaw2006astro.jpg|thumb|250px|Perlmutter, [[Adam Riess]], and [[Brian P. Schmidt]] after being awarded the 2006 [[Shaw Prize]] in Astronomy - the same astronomers would be awarded the [[2011 Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2011]]
[[File:Nobel Prize 2011-Nobel lectures KVA-DSC 7973.jpg|thumb|Perlmutter presenting his Nobel lecture at Aula Magna]]
In 2002, Perlmutter won the [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]]'s [[E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics]]. In 2003, he was awarded the California Scientist of the Year Award, and, in 2005, he won the [[John Scott Award]] and the Padua Prize. In 2006, he shared the [[Shaw Prize]] in [[Astronomy]] with [[Adam Riess]] and [[Brian P. Schmidt]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15165371|title=Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find|work=[[BBC News]]|date=October 4, 2011}}</ref> The same year, Perlmutter won the [[Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize]].

Perlmutter and his team shared the 2007 [[Gruber Prize in Cosmology|Gruber Cosmology Prize]] (a $500,000 award) with Schmidt and the High-Z Team for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe. In 2010, Perlmutter was named a Miller Senior Fellow of the [[Miller Institute]] at the [[University of California Berkeley]]. In 2011, Perlmutter and Riess were named co-recipients of the [[Albert Einstein Medal]].

Perlmutter shared the [[2011 Nobel Prize in Physics]] with Riess and Schmidt.<ref name="BBC" /> The Nobel Prize includes a [[Swedish krona|SEK]] 10 million cash award (approximately US$1.5 million). Perlmutter received one-half of the cash prize, while Riess and Schmidt shared the other half.<ref name="BBC"/>

In 2014, Perlmutter received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref>

Perlmutter, Schmidt, Riess, and their teams shared the 2015 [[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] with $3 million to be split among them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org |title=Breakthrough Prize|work=breakthroughprize.org}}</ref>

A [[United States Department of Energy]] 2020 [[supercomputer]] is named [[Perlmutter (supercomputer)|Perlmutter]] in his honor.<ref name=moss>{{cite web|url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/lawrence-berkeley-install-perlmutter-supercomputer-featuring-crays-shasta-system/|title=Lawrence Berkeley to install Perlmutter supercomputer featuring Cray's Shasta system|publisher=Data Centre Dynamics| last=Moss | first=Sebastian|access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref>