Edward Kolb

{{Short description|American cosmologist}}

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| name = Edward W. Kolb

|image = Rocky Kolb Shimer College Chicago 2010 cropped.jpg

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|caption = Kolb speaking at Shimer College

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|10|2}}[http://astro.uchicago.edu/~rocky/cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae – Edward W. (Rocky) Kolb]. astro.uchicago.edu

| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana

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| citizenship = US

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| field = Physical Cosmology

| work_institution = Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Chicago

| alma_mater = University of New Orleans, University of Texas – Austin

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| prizes = Oersted Medal{{cite web |url=https://www.aapt.org/programs/awards/oersted.cfm |title=Oersted Medal |author= |date= |website=American Association of Physics Teachers |publisher= |access-date=30 April 2022 |quote=}} {{small|(2003)}}
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics {{small|(2010)}}

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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.{{Citation | title = Grants, Prizes, and Awards | url = http://aas.org/grants/awards.php#heineman | accessdate = 10 February 2010 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101222143439/http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#heineman | archivedate = 22 December 2010 }}

Kolb's collaborators also include Stephen Wolfram{{cite journal| url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0550321380901674 | doi=10.1016/0550-3213(80)90167-4 | title=Baryon number generation in the early universe | date=1980 | last1=Kolb | first1=Edward W. | last2=Wolfram | first2=Stephen | journal=Nuclear Physics B | volume=172 | pages=224–284 | bibcode=1980NuPhB.172..224K }} and Richard Slansky.{{cite journal| url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0370269384902983 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(84)90298-3 | title=Dimensional reduction in the early universe: Where have the massive particles gone? | date=1984 | last1=Kolb | first1=Edward W. | last2=Slansky | first2=Richard | journal=Physics Letters B | volume=135 | issue=5–6 | pages=378–382 | bibcode=1984PhLB..135..378K }}

Doctor Kolb is married to Adrienne Kolb, a historian of science,{{citation|url=https://news.fnal.gov/2015/06/adrienne-kolb-retires/|title=Adrienne Kolb retires|date=June 23, 2015|first=Valerie|last=Higgins|publisher=Fermilab}} and has three children.