Edward W. Kolb | |
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 Kolb speaking at Shimer College | |
| Born | October 2, 1951[2] |
| Citizenship | US |
| Alma mater | University of New Orleans, University of Texas – Austin |
| Awards | Oersted Medal[1] (2003) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical Cosmology |
| Institutions | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Chicago |
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.[3]
Kolb's collaborators also include Stephen Wolfram[4] and Richard Slansky.[5]
Doctor Kolb is married to Adrienne Kolb, a historian of science,[6] and has three children.[2]
- ^ "Oersted Medal". American Association of Physics Teachers. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Curriculum Vitae – Edward W. (Rocky) Kolb. astro.uchicago.edu
- ^ Grants, Prizes, and Awards, archived from the original on 22 December 2010, retrieved 10 February 2010
- ^ Kolb, Edward W.; Wolfram, Stephen (1980). "Baryon number generation in the early universe". Nuclear Physics B. 172: 224–284. Bibcode:1980NuPhB.172..224K. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90167-4.
- ^ Kolb, Edward W.; Slansky, Richard (1984). "Dimensional reduction in the early universe: Where have the massive particles gone?". Physics Letters B. 135 (5–6): 378–382. Bibcode:1984PhLB..135..378K. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90298-3.
- ^ Higgins, Valerie (June 23, 2015), Adrienne Kolb retires, Fermilab