# The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: A Brief Early History of the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP)

@article{Goldhaber2009TheAO,
title={The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: A Brief Early History of the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP)},
author={Gerson. Goldhaber},
journal={arXiv: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics},
year={2009},
volume={1166},
pages={53-72}
}
• G. Goldhaber
• Published 21 July 2009
• Physics
• arXiv: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
It is now about 10 years since the evidence, based on Type Ia supernovae, for the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe was discovered. I will discuss some aspects of the work and events in the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), during the period 1988 to 1998, which led to this discovery.
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