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William Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Director, Energy Policy Institute Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Robert Rosner served as Argonne National Laboratory's Associate Director for physical, biological and computing sciences and as its Chief Scientist from 2002 until 2005, and as laboratory director from 2005...Read more
Bruce & Diana Rauner Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Michael Turner's research focuses on the application of modern ideas in elementary particle theory to cosmology and astrophysics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a...Read more
Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College
Meyer was a member of the science team of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a mission that measured the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation (the afterglow of the...Read more
Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and the College
Kron, along with two colleagues, conceived the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a collaboration of 13 institutions and 200 astronomers around the world that in 1998 began conducting the largest census...Read more
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, Director of the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica , Deputy Director of the PFC and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Carlstrom is leading two cosmological research projects, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California. Both projects are aimed at...Read more
Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College
The field of Kolb’s research is the application of elementary-particle physics to the very early Universe, including cosmic inflation models, gravitational production of particles, particle dark matter, ultra-high energy cosmic...Read more
Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, Director, Flash Center for Computational Science
Lamb has focused his research on fundamental, unsolved problems in high-energy astrophysics. As the mission scientist for NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer-2 satellite, launched in 2000, he investigated gamma-ray bursts...Read more
Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College, Chair, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Olinto studies the unknown origins of both ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and of the magnetic fields that pervade all objects in the universe. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays enter the atmosphere with so...Read more
Produced by Tom Weingartner, John Grunsfeld, Edward Kolb, Michael Turner
October 30, 2009
Astronaut-alumnus John Grunsfeld, SM'84, PhD'88, returns the Edwin Hubble orbiting space basketball to Ratner Athletic Center. Hubble, SB, 1910, PhD, 1917, namesake of the orbiting Hubble Space telescope, played with...Read more