About Scott Dodelson
Born 1959. Scott Dodelson is an American cosmologist, physicist, astrophysicist and university teacher.
Scott Dodelson is an American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University and chair of its physics department.
Biography Dodelson received his B.A., B.S., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His thesis supervisor was Gerald Feinberg. He was a research fellow at Harvard University before moving to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1998 and was professor until 2017, when he joined Carnegie Mellon University. He has played a key role in numerous cosmological surveys, including co-chairing the Science Committee of the Dark Energy Survey. He was head of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group from 2001 to 2006.
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Scott Dodelson was born in 1959 in United States.
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