Announcement
The Shaw Laureates in Astronomy 2006
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2006 will be awarded jointly to
Saul Perlmutter,
Adam Riess,
and
Brian Schmidt
For discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, implying in the simplest interpretation that the energy density of space is non-vanishing even in the absence of any matter and radiation.
June 21, 2006 Hong Kong