Johns Hopkins Professor Shares Nobel Prize In Physics

Adam Riess researches expansion of the universe

More than anything else, in the wake of the elation and tumult accompanying Tuesday's announcement that he'd won a share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, Johns Hopkins Universityastrophysicist Adam Riess wants to get back to work.

"I really want to keep doing the research I do, and not just supervise people doing research," a fate that sometimes befalls Nobel laureates, he said.

His discovery of dark energy, and the accelerating expansion of the universe was, after all, something he accomplished in 1998 at theUniversity of California Berkeley — at the age of 28.

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