Description: (Astrophysicist)
Saul Perlmutter is an esteemed U.S. astrophysicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He heads the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is a distinguished member of renowned scientific organizations, such as the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter's pioneering research on the accelerating expansion of the universe has garnered him numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.