About Edward Kolb
Born 1951. Edward Kolb is an American physicist, university teacher, astronomer and astrophysicist.
Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb, (born October 2, 1951) is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of Physical Sciences. 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.
Kolb's collaborators also include Stephen Wolfram and Richard Slansky.
He received the Quantrell Award.
He is married to Adrienne Kolb, a historian of science, and has three children.
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American physicist
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Edward Kolb was born on 2 October 1951 in New Orleans.
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Edward Kolb is a physicist, university teacher, astronomer and astrophysicist.
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