Citizenship US Books Blind watchers of the sky Fields Cosmology | Role Author Name Edward Kolb | |
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Born October 2, 1951 (age 72)
New Orleans, Louisiana ( 1951-10-02 ) Institutions Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Chicago Alma mater University of New Orleans, University of Texas – Austin Education University of Texas at Austin Awards Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Notable awards Oersted Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | ||
UnCommon Core | Galileo's Trial - Edward Kolb
Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb, (born October 2, 1951) is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of Physical Sciences. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe (Addison-Wesley, 1990). Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
Doctor Kolb is married and has three children.
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