Edward Kolb

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Edward W. Kolb

Fields Cosmology
Institutions Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Chicago

Edward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe (Addison-Wesley, 1990).

On September 24th, 2006 he spoke at a lecture entitled "Beyond Einstein: The Dark Side of the Universe" at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for the Collegium da Vinci.

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