First of all, thanks again to the hosts of WXFORUM.NET for allowing the unusual departure from subject matter to allow such a liberal "chit-chat policy. This has also become a very nice defacto astronomy forum. It puts the "meteor" back in "meteorology."
Anyway, Saul Perlmutter (et al) win this year's Nobel for demonstrating that the universe's expansion rate is increasing, rather than slowing and eventually contracting under gravity. Most of the astro-nuts here already know how they did this. It has also driven pretty much all of the research into "dark-energy."
The reason I feel it is worth mentioning is that I feel that Edwin Hubble was slighted (or back-handed) by not getting the prize for any of his several monumental discoveries, including that the universe is expanding, which is the only reason anyone later came up with such a ubiquitous concept as "the big bang" or calculate the age of the universe How many very talented scientists won Nobel's on the back of Hubble's work?
Physics Nobel winners
