Joel Primack

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Dr. Joel R. Primack
Born	Joel R. Primack (1945-07-14) July 14, 1945 Santa Barbara, California
Occupation	Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz Director: University of California High Performance AstroComputing Center
Alma mater	Princeton University (A.B., Physics, summa cum laude, 1966) Stanford University (Ph.D., Physics, 1970)
Period	UCSC: 1973–present UC-HiPACC: 2010-present
Notable work(s)	Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena,The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World
Notable award(s)	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Award, 1997
Spouse(s)	Nancy Ellen Abrams
Children	1 daughter
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Joel R. Primack (born in 1945) is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.^[1]^[2]

Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. His fields of study are relativistic quantum field theory, cosmology, and particle astrophysics. He is also involved in supercomputer simulations of dark matter models. He directs the University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center] (UC-HiPACC). Primack is best known for his co-authorship with George Blumenthal, Sandra Moore Faber, and Martin Rees of the theory of cold dark matter (CDM) in 1984.^{[citation needed]} He co-authored two books with Nancy Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe (2006)^[3] and The New Universe and the Human Future (2011).^[4] He played major roles in starting the Congressional Science and Technology Fellowship program, the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, and the Science and Human Rights program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^{[citation needed]} He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

References

↑ "Joel R. Primack". Retrieved 29 January 2013.
↑ "Welcome from the Director". Retrieved 29 January 2013.
↑ The View from the Center of the Universe. Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Riverhead Books, 2007 (ISBN 978-1594482557).
↑ The New Universe and the Human Future - The Terry Lectures. Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Yale University Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-0300181241).

The Terry Lectures 2009 - Yale University - first of four lectures on cosmology by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams.

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Persondata
Name	Primack, Joel R.
Alternative names
Short description	Director of University of California Astro-Computing Center
Date of birth	1945
Place of birth	Santa Barbara, CA
Date of death
Place of death

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