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Born | September 9, 1971 |
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Website | https://briankeating.com |
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Thesis | A search for the large angular scale polarization of the cosmic microwave background |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Timbie |
Brian Gregory Keating (born September 9, 1971) is an American cosmologist. He works on observations of the cosmic microwave background, leading the POLARBEAR2 and Simons Array experiments. He also conceived the first BICEP experiment. He received his PhD in 2000, and is a distinguished professor of physics at University of California, San Diego, since 2019. He is the author of two books, Losing The Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible.