Adam Guy Riess (born December 1969, Washington, D.C.) is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely 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..(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Riess)   

Riess graduated from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1996. Riess' PhD thesis was supervised by Robert Kirshner and resulted in measurements of over twenty new type Ia supernovae and a method to make Type Ia supernovae into accurate distance indicators by correcting for intervening dust and intrinsic inhomogeneities.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Riess)

Riess, now a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University, shares the prize with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter. Perlmutter and Schmidt each headed research teams that in 1998 presented evidence that expansion of the universe was accelerating. Riess was part of Schmidt’s international High-z Supernova Search Team. (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/riess-nobel-prize.html)

For almost a century, the universe had been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating was “astounding,” according to the Nobel committee.(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/riess-nobel-prize.html

Riess, Perlmutter and Schmidt also shared the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy for discovering the acceleration of the universe’s expansion. Reiss, who was born in Washington, D.C., earned his PhD from Harvard in 1996, and was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2008.

Riess is the 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. See all of MIT's winners at http://web.mit.edu/ir/pop/awards/nobel.html. He will also be on campus on Oct. 20 to deliver the Department of Physics's Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/riess-nobel-prize.html

 

                       Curriculum Vitae–Adam Guy Riess(http://www.stsci.edu/~ariess/Awards.htm)
Office
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-4474
ariess@stsci.edu
Education
Harvard University, Ph.D., Astrophysics, 1996
Harvard University, A.M., Astrophysics, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S, Physics, Minor in History 1992
Positions Held
Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2006
Space Telescope Science Institute, Assistant Astronomer 1999, Full Astronomer 2004
U.C. Berkeley, Miller Fellow, 1996-1999
Harvard University, Doctoral Student, 1992-1996
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Research Associate, Summer 1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 1990-1992
Honors and Awards– Recognition by Peers
Einstein Medal, 2011
Gilman Scholor, Johns Hopkins University, 2011
Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, 2010
National Academy of Sciences, 2009
MacArthur Fellow, 2008
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow, 2007
Gruber Prize in Cosmology, 2007
Shaw Prize, Hong Kong, 2006
Townes Prize in Cosmology, UC Berkeley, 2005
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize, Tel-Aviv University, 2004
International Academy of Astronautics, Laurels for Achievement Award, 2004
Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 2003
Bok Prize, Harvard University, 2001
AURA Science Award, 2000
STScI Science Merit Award, 2000, 2001
Trumpler Award, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999
Harvard GSAS Merit Fellow, 1995
Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award, 1994
Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Memorial Fellowship, 1993
Phi Beta Kappa at MIT, GPA: 4.94/5.00
Honors and Awards– Public Recognition
Discover Magazine “Twenty under 40”, 2008
Esquire Magazine “Best and Brightest” Award, 2003
Discover Magazine Innovator Award, Finalist, 2003
Time Magazine Innovator Award, 2000
Science Magazine’s Research “Breakthrough of the Year”, 1998
Supervised Students and Postdocs
Dr. Steve Rodney, Postdoctoral Fellow, JHU, 2010-present
Mr. Dan Scolnic, Graduate Student, JHU, 2007-present
Dr. Mark Huber, Postdoctoral Fellow, JHU, 2007-present
Dr. Andre Martel, Postdoctoral Fellow, JHU, 2006-present
Miss. Bridget Faulk, Graduate Student, JHU, 2006-present
Dr. Joao Souza, Postdoctoral Fellow, STScI, 2005-present
Dr. Hubert Lampeitl, Postdoctoral Fellow, STScI, 2005-present
Dr. Louis Strolger, Postdoctoral Fellow, STScI, 2002-2005
Mr. Josh Younger, Undergraduate Research Assistant, STScI, 2005
Mr. Chris Carpenter, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Harvard, 1996
Teaching, Communication, Service
Johns Hopkins University, taught Physics 171.118, Spring 2008, 2009,2010,2011
Johns Hopkins University, taught Physics 171.112, Spring 2007
Scientific American Magazine, “From Slowdown to Speedup”, by A. G. Riess and M. S.
Turner, February 2004
Decadal Survey Program Prioritization Panel, 2009
Johns Hopkins Astrophysics Faculty Search, Chair 2009
Johns Hopkins Discovery Working Group, co-chair, 2008
The Universe, NHK Japan, 2010
400 Years of The Telescope, NPR 2008
Hubbles Amazing Universe, National Geographic 2008
“Scientific American Frontiers”, Guest, PBS, 2004
“60 Minutes”, Guest, CBS, 2003
“Science Friday”, Guest, NPR, 2001
“NOVA”, Guest, PBS, 2000,2005
“Jim Lehrer News Hour”, Guest, PBS, 1998
“Headline News”, Guest, CNN, 1998
“Science Friday”, Guest, NPR, 1998
Most Important Publications
Riess, A. G. et al. 1998, “Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating
Universe and a Cosmological Constant”, AJ, 116, 1009
Riess, A. G., et al. 2004, “Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 From the Hubble Space
Telescope: Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution”, ApJ, 607,
665
Riess, A. G., Press, W. H., Kirshner, R. P. 1996, “A Precise Distance Indicator: Type Ia
Supernova Multicolor Light Curve Shapes” ApJ, 473, 88
Riess, A. G., et al. 2007, “New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae
at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy”, ApJ, 659,
98
Riess, A. G. et al., 2001, “The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating
Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration”, ApJ, 560, 49
Riess, A. G., Macri, L., Casertano, S., Sosey, M., Lampeitl, H., Ferguson, H. C., Filippenko,
A. V., Jha, S. W., et al., A Redetermination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble
Space Telescope from a Differential Distance Ladder, 2009, ApJ, 699, 539
Riess, A. G., Macri, L., Casertano, S., Lampeitl, H., Ferguson, H. C., Filippenko, A. V.,
Jha, S. W., Li, W., et al., A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with
the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera 3, 2011, ApJ, 730, 119
Riess, A. G. et al., 1999, “BVRI Photometry of 22 Distant Type Ia Supernovae”, AJ, 117,
707