Keith Olive

Keith Alison Olive
Born (1956-10-28) October 28, 1956 (age 68)
Chicago, United States
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
AwardsHans A. Bethe Prize 2018
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology, Big Bang nucleosynthesis
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
Doctoral advisorDavid 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]

  1. ^ "School of Physics and Astronomy". College of Science and Engineering. October 27, 2023.