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Edward Kolb

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American physicist

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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.

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2024Lilienfeld Prize
2010Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
2010honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
2003Oersted Medal
Fellow of the American Physical Society
J. Hans D. Jensen Award

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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.

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Born 1951 · age 74
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