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RE: Adam Riess

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Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected last week to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C.
Riess, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, joins 20 other Johns Hopkins faculty members currently in the academy, an honorary society that advises the government on scientific matters. Riess also is an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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Adam Riess is a man of science, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University who has measured the accelerating expansion of the universe. He knows more than most people about Einstein's cosmological constant and Type 1a supernovae.

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