Michael S. Turner

Michael S. Turner

Michael Stanley Turner (born July 29, 1949 in Los Angeles ) is an American theoretical astrophysicist . He works at the University of Chicago . He is primarily interested in cosmology and is considered a leading expert on the early days of the universe .

Life

Turner began his physics degree at the California Institute of Technology . After his bachelor's degree, he moved to Stanford University in 1971 . In 1973 he did his master’s degree, in 1978 he did his doctorate there and was then an instructor. He then became an Enrico Fermi Fellow in Chicago at the Enrico Fermi Institute, where he became Assistant Professor in 1980 and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1985. He is also director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago . Since 1979 he has also been a member of the Aspen Center for Physics , of which he was chairman from 1989 to 1993. He also works at the Enrico Fermi Institute , the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(from 1983) and the Argonne National Laboratory . At the university, Turner was director of the astronomy and astrophysics department from 1997 to 2003. At Fermilab, he founded the working group for theoretical astrophysics together with Edward Kolb and David Schramm . In 2013 he was President of the American Physical Society .

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Turner did important work for the connection of particle physics and cosmology with regard to the particle formation processes in the early universe. He carried out further research on nucleosynthesis , inflation , dark matter , structure formation in the universe and, most recently, especially dark energy . This term was coined by Turner himself. The early universe , written together with Edward Kolb, is considered the most important book in this field.

Honors

In 1983 Turner received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996), the National Academy of Sciences (1997) and the American Philosophical Society (2017). He has won the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society , the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (1997) from the American Physical Society, the Halley Lectureship from Oxford University , the Klopsteg Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers and Received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Teaching in Chicago. In 2000 he gave two Wolfgang Paul lectures in Bonn . There was an exhibition of Turner's diagrams. He is an honorary doctor of Michigan State University .

Fonts

• Kolb, Turner The early universe , Addison-Wesley 1990

Web links

• Job description at the University of Chicago
• Short biography on uchicago.edu , accessed September 4, 2015
• Michael Stanley Turner. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: Michael S. Turner. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 13, 2018 (with biographical notes).