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Will the U.S. continue to lead the world in science?
Saul Perlmutter, of the University of California, Berkeley; Adam G. Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute; and Brian P. Schmidt of the Australian National University shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
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