# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-kolb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:49:24.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-kolb"
name: "Edward Kolb"
slug: "edward-kolb"
description: "Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb, 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. Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rocky_Kolb_Shimer_College_Chicago_2010_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1951-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump