Brian Schmidt

Nobel Prize winners are called Nobel laureates.

So far, Australia has had 15 Nobel laureates, including Professor Brian Schmidt, who won a 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, and Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, who won a 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on telomeres.

Telomeres are made of DNA and proteins, and they protect the ends of chromosomes, which are bundles of DNA found in the nucleus of cells.

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Okay? There were, th- I forgot, it m- might have been as many as, uh, eight or nine authors on this paper, and the lead author, the lead author would later win the Nobel Prize for the discovery of dark energy, f- for co-discovering dark energy in the universe.

So the lead author on that paper, his name is Brian Schmidt, who studied the, uh, w- as we say, high redshift supernovae.

These are stars that explode in galaxies out to the edge of the universe.

And if you do that, you can probe metrics of the universe, 'cause all the supernova have a certain common properties.

So it's like a yardstick, a free yardstick moving, uh, throughout the universe.

And so he would ultimately share the Nobel Prize with Adam Riess, uh, for this discovery, and both those groups, the, the high redshift supernova groups, one was on the East Coast, one was on the West Coast.

Brian Schmidt is now, last I checked, he was, like, provost at, in Australia, Australia National University, I think it is.

But anyhow, uh, so I'm on a research paper that showed that if you know, when a star blows up a supernova, it gets brighter and then it gets dimmer at a very predictable rate.

Instead, the university endured severe cost-cutting, governance controversies and intense scrutiny over its campus culture.

To be fair, responsibility for the last of these has been largely accepted by Bell's predecessor, Professor Brian Schmidt.

The National Tertiary Regulator recently imposed specific conditions on the university over governance, culture and the conflict of interest failures.

Furthermore, the Auditor-General found the administration's sweeping savings program lacked evidence of success.

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