Edward Kolb

Edward William Kolb, called Rocky Kolb, ( born October 2, 1951 in New Orleans) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Piston studied at the University of New Orleans with a Bachelor 's degree in 1973 and his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Texas at Austin in Physics ( Duane A. Dicus ). As a post - graduate student in astrophysics, he spent two years at Caltech in William A. Fowler. 1980 to 1982 he was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and then at the University of Chicago professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and at Fermilab. He's Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Chairman 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 the 1983 co-founder and first director of the Group for Theoretical Astrophysics and 2004 director of the newly established Center for Particle Astrophysics. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Rome and its Observatory, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He works frequently 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 2003 he received the Oersted Medal. In 1993 he received the Quantrell Award of the University of Chicago for his teaching. In 2012 he was awarded the J. Hans D. Jensen Prize and was a visiting scholar at the University of Heidelberg. In 2010 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics with Turner. He holds honorary doctorates 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.

Writings

• Blind watchers of the sky. The People And Ideas That Shaped Our View Of The Universe, Basic Books 1997 (the book received the 1996 Emme Award of the American Aeronautical Society )
• Michael Turner The early universe, Addison Wesley 1990