Edward Kolb

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Edward W. Kolb
Kolb speaking at Shimer College
Born	(1951-10-02) October 2, 1951^[1] New Orleans, Louisiana^[1]
Citizenship	US
Fields	Cosmology
Institutions	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Chicago
Alma mater	University of New Orleans, University of Texas – Austin

Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb, (born October 2, 1951) is a cosmologist 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). Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.^[2]

Kolb is married and has three children.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Curriculum Vitae – Edward W. (Rocky) Kolb. astro.uchicago.edu
↑ Grants, Prizes, and Awards, retrieved 10 February 2010

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61607854 LCCN: n85031938 ISNI: 0000 0001 1655 1075 GND: 141177160 BNF: cb12281124z

Persondata
Name	Kolb, Edward W.
Alternative names	Rocky
Short description	Cosmology's funniest man
Date of birth
Place of birth	New Orleans, LA
Date of death
Place of death

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