1. Saul Perlmutter was born on September 22,1959 and is an American 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 head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Saul Perlmutter is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Saul Perlmutter was born one of three children in the Ashkenazi Jewish family of Daniel D Perlmutter, professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering at University of Pennsylvania, and Felice D Perlmutter, professor emerita of Temple University's School of Social Administration.
Saul Perlmutter went to school in nearby Germantown; first Greene Street Friends School for the elementary grades, followed by Germantown Friends School for grades 7 through 12.
Saul Perlmutter is a participant in the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which aims to increase our understanding of recent global warming through improved analyses of climate data.
Saul Perlmutter is a professor and currently teaches at UC Berkeley.
In 2002, Perlmutter won the Department of Energy's E O Lawrence Award in Physics.
In 2010, Saul Perlmutter was named a Miller Senior Fellow of the Miller Institute at the University of California Berkeley.
Saul Perlmutter shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Riess and Schmidt.
Saul Perlmutter received one-half of the cash prize, while Riess and Schmidt shared the other half.
In 2014, Saul Perlmutter received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
Saul Perlmutter is married to Laura Nelson, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley, and has one daughter, Noa.
Reference to Saul Perlmutter was made on the CBS television comedy series The Big Bang Theory during the 2011 episode "The Speckerman Recurrence".
Saul Perlmutter was referenced in the 2011 episode of The Big Bang Theory, "The Rhinitis Revelation".
I'm taking you to see Saul Perlmutter give a lecture about his Nobel Prize-winning work in cosmology.