When embarking on the project 18 months ago, its members (including Saul Perlmutter, who wontheNobelprizeforphysics this month for his work on dark energy) were mostly new to climate science.
Even as Adam Riess was regaling the media with an amusing, self-depreciating, anecdote about his early morning wake-up call from Oslo, deep in the bowels of UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy researchers were putting the finishing touches to a camera that could finally shed some light on the discovery that won him theNobelPrizeforPhysics.