Nobel Laureate, Physics, 2011. AB, Harvard, 1981; PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1986. Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Leader of the Supernova Cosmology Project, an international collaboration of research teams from seven countries measuring the expansion history of the Universe. Member: National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society. Fellow: American Physical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science. Interest in teaching scientific approaches to problem-solving for non-scientists led to the development of a Berkeley course called "Physics & Music". 2011 Nobel Prize in physics was shared for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe.