{"id":3717,"date":"2011-10-05T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2011-10-05T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:14:13","slug":"three-u-s-born-scientists-won-the-nobel-prize-2011-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3717","title":{"rendered":"Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize 2011 in physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that suggests the cosmos will eventually freeze to ice.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said <strong>American Saul Perlmutter <\/strong>would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with <strong>U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess<\/strong>. Working in two separate research teams during the 1990s &#8212; Perlmutter in one and Schmidt and Riess in the other &#8212; the scientists raced to map the universe&#8217;s expansion by analyzing a particular type of supernovas, or exploding stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that suggests the cosmos will eventually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3717\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[207,409,27,317,318,5427,1203,5428,5429],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-today","tag-current-affairs","tag-general-knowledge","tag-gk","tag-gk-quiz","tag-gk-today","tag-nobel-prize-2011-in-physics","tag-the-nobel-prize","tag-three-u-s-born-scientists-won-the-nobel-prize-three-u-s-born-scientists","tag-u-s-australian-brian-schmidt-and-u-s-scientist-adam-riess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}