Edward Kolb

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.^[3]

Edward W. Kolb
Kolb speaking at Shimer College
Born	(1951-10-02) October 2, 1951 (age 73)[1] New Orleans, Louisiana[1]
Citizenship	US
Alma mater	University of New Orleans, University of Texas – Austin
Awards	Oersted Medal[2] (2003) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Physical Cosmology
Institutions	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Chicago

Kolb's collaborators also include Stephen Wolfram^[4] and Richard Slansky.^[5]

Doctor Kolb is married to Adrienne Kolb, a historian of science,^[6] and has three children.^[1]