IST alumni in the research team that received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics -2015.
The surprising discovery that the Universe is in an accelerated expansion receives the 3 million dolars of the Breakthrough Prize 2015
This prize was awarded to the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter, and to the High-z Supernova Serach Team, led by Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess.
Nelson Nunes and Patricia Castro, participated in this discovery while being IST students, in a project managed by Prof. Ana Mourão of the Physics Department and CENTRA,therefore their names and IST come in the list of awarded.