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NERSC Resources Have Played a Part in Seven Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries
Seven Nobel Prize-winning researchers or teams have used NERSC resources in their work, including two Berkeley Lab astrophysicists who made breakthrough discoveries about the nature of the Universe.
George Smoot, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab, won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics for his cosmic microwave background radiation data analysis. Smoot used NERSC supercomputers to confirm predictions of the Big Bang theory.
Saul Perlmutter, a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his 1998 discovery that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. He confirmed his observations by running thousands of simulations at NERSC, and his research team is believed to have been the first to use supercomputers to analyze and validate observational data in cosmology. Our flagship high performance computing system is named Perlmutter in his honor.
Read more about Nobel-prize winning science NERSC has supported over the years.
NERSC@50
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NERSC Marks 50 Years of Accelerating Science October 21, 2024
Tune In To NERSC's 50th Anniversary User Meeting Via Zoom October 15, 2024
Bailey to Explore DESI Collab for NERSC@50 September 25, 2024
Bell Gets in the Flow for NERSC@50 September 10, 2024
Voting Now Open in NERSC Science as Art Competition September 9, 2024
Nugent to Illuminate Astrophysics at NERSC in Upcoming Seminar August 21, 2024
Science News
AI Shows Promise for Mapping Disease Progression November 1, 2024
Perlmutter Helps Identify 'Exquisite' Gravitational Lens October 10, 2024
Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens' September 18, 2024
Collaboration Exploring Neutral Atom Technology Expanded for Second Year September 4, 2024
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