Edward Kolb
Edward William Kolb , called Rocky Kolb, (born October 2, 1951 in New Orleans ) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist.
Kolb graduated from the University of New Orleans with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978 (with Duane A. Dicus ). As a post-doctoral student in astrophysics, he spent two years at Caltech with William A. Fowler . From 1980 to 1982 he was a professor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and then at the University of Chicago at the Enrico Fermi Institute and at the Fermilab . He is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Director of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. In addition to his connection to the Enrico Fermi Institute, he is also at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.
At Fermilab, he was co-founder and first head of the group for theoretical astrophysics in 1983 and director of the newly established Center for Particle Astrophysics in 2004. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Rome and its observatory, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He deals extensively with Michael S. Turner with many aspects of Big Bang cosmology, particle astrophysics and the early universe, such as dark matter , nucleosynthesis and baryogenesis . In addition, he dealt among other things with neutrino processes in supernovae .
In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2003 he received the Oersted Medal . In 1993 he received the Quantrell Award from the University of Chicago for his teaching. In 2012 he received the J. Hans D. Jensen Prize and was a visiting researcher at Heidelberg University. In 2010 he and Turner received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics . He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon (2010). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1984).
He has been married since 1972 and has three children.
Fonts
- Blind watchers of the sky. The People And Ideas That Shaped Our View Of The Universe , Basic Books 1997 (the book received the Emme Award of the American Aeronautical Society in 1996)
- with Michael Turner The early universe , Addison-Wesley 1990
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolb, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kolb, Edward William; Kolb, Rocky |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |