Michael Turner (cosmologist)
Michael S. Turner ( born July 29, 1949 in Los Angeles ) is an American theoretical astrophysicist. He works at the University of Chicago. He is interested primarily for cosmology, and is considered a leading expert on the early universe.
Life
Turner began his studies in physics at the California Institute of Technology. After the Bachelor he transferred in 1971 to Stanford University. In 1973 he received his Master degree in 1978 he received his doctorate there and was then instructor. He was then Enrico Fermi Fellow at Chicago on Enrico Fermi Institute, 1980 he became assistant professor in 1985 and professor of astronomy and astrophysics. Since 1979 he is also part of the Aspen Center for Physics, which he chaired from 1989 to 1993. He also works at the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( from 1983) and Argonne National Laboratory. At the University of Turner was from 1997 to 2003 Director of Astronomy and Astrophysics. At Fermilab, he and Edward Kolb and David Schramm, the Working Group of Theoretical Astrophysics.
Work
Turner made important work on the connection between particle physics and cosmology in terms of Teilchenbildungsprozesse in the early universe. Further research operation and he runs to the nucleosynthesis, inflation, dark matter, structure formation in the universe, and especially the last dark energy. This term was coined by Turner himself. The written jointly with Edward Kolb The early universe is the most important book in this field.
Honors
Turner is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences (1997). He has the Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize ( 1997) of the American Physical Society, and the Halley Lectureship at Oxford University, the Klopsteg Lecture Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers received the Quantrell Award for excellence in teaching in Chicago. In 2000, he held two Wolfgang Paul lectures in Bonn. There was an exhibition of Turner's charts.
Writings
- Kolb, Turner The early universe, Addison -Wesley 1990