Edward Kolb
American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1951 · age 75
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 PrizeAward2010Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsAwardHonorary Doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1Award2003Oersted MedalAward1951Born2 October 1951
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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 75
