Keith Alison Olive | |
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Born | Chicago, United States | October 28, 1956
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Awards | Hans A. Bethe Prize 2018 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cosmology, Big Bang nucleosynthesis |
Institutions | University of Minnesota |
Doctoral advisor | David Schramm |
Keith Alison Olive is a theoretical physicist, and director at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in particle physics and cosmology. His main topics of research are: big bang nucleosynthesis, which is an explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes through 7Li; particle dark matter; big bang baryogenesis, which is an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature; and inflation which is a theory constructed to resolve many outstanding problems in standard cosmology.[1]