Adam Riess, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Adam Riess

American Nobel laureate

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1969

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: astronomer, professor, physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P.
Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.