@inproceedings{c97813960f5545e7a4f706ad77ea0a35,
title = "The discovery of dark energy: Historical reflections",
abstract = "The discovery of dark energy by supernovae - culminating in Riess et al. Astron. J. 116, 1998, 1009, and Perlmutter et al. Astrophys J. 511 1999 565 - is likely to become a classic discovery story in the history of science. It exhibits at lease five features that attract the interest of historians: 1) the role of evolving techniques in making a discovery possible; 2) the existence of ambiguities in the discovery process; 3) the existence of ambiguities in discovery announcements; 4) different forms of competition and cooperation; and 5) the way discoveries can open new chapters in science. The dark-energy discovery provides dramatic examples of such features, even apart from the differing memories and judgments that may exist about the events. This article engages in a thoughtexperiment: what in this discovery story is likely to attract the interest of a science historian looking back on this discovery a hundred years from now?",
keywords = "Announcements, Competition, Dark energy, Discovery, History of Science, Techniques",
author = "Crease, \{Robert P.\}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1063/1.3232199",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735407039",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "87--94",
booktitle = "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe - Proceedings of the 8th UCLA Symposium, Dark Matter 2008",
note = "8th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, Dark Matter 2008 ; Conference date: 20-02-2008 Through 22-02-2008",
}