Cosmologists Cosmologists Alan H. Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Guth"
Albert Einstein ( March 14, 1879– April 18, 1955) was a German- Swiss- American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his " miracle year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics." ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Einstein"
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman or Friedmann (Александр Александрович Фридман) ( June 16 1888 – September 16 1925) was a Russian cosmologist and mathematician. He discovered the expanding-universe solution to general relativity field equations in 1922, which was proved by Edwin Hubble's observations in 1929. (Ferguson, 1991: 67). Friedmann's 1924 papers, including "Über die Möglichkeit einer Welt mit konstanter negativer Krümmung des Raumes" (On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space) published by the German physics journal Zeitschrift für Physik (Vol. 21, pp. 326-332), demonstrated that he had command of all three Friedmann models describing positive, zero and negative curvature respectively, a decade before Robertson and Walker published their analysis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman"
Alexander Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the universe from nothing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Vilenkin"
Andrei Linde is an American physicist and professor of Physics at California's Stanford University. He was born March 2, 1948 in Moscow, Russia. Dr. Linde is best known for his work on the concept of the inflationary universe. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Moscow State University. In 1975, Linde was awarded a Ph.D. from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. Among the various awards he's received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrei Linde"
Arthur Geoffrey Walker ( 17 July 1909 - 31 March 2001) was a leading mathematician and cosmologist. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. He is best remembered today for creating, together with H. P. Robertson, the famous Robertson-Walker metric for the FRW cosmological models. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Geoffrey Walker"
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley ( January 27, 1941 - March 23, 1981) was an astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how galaxies evolve with time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beatrice Tinsley"
David Todd Wilkinson ( 13 May 1935 – 5 September 2002) was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB) left over from the Big Bang. He was born in Hillsdale, Michigan, and earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Michigan under the supervision of H. Richard Crane. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Todd Wilkinson"
Edward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago. 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). ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Kolb"
Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer, noted for his discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and the cosmic red shift. Edwin Hubble was one of the first to argue that the red shift of distant galaxies is due to the Doppler effect induced by the expansion of the universe. He was one of the leading astronomers of modern times and laid down the foundation upon which physical cosmology now rests. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edwin Hubble"
Frank J. Tipler is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, physicist, theologian and cornucopian philosopher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank J. Tipler"
Sir Fred Hoyle ( June 24, 1915 in Yorkshire – August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by his son Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, and was director of the institute for a number of years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fred Hoyle"
George Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Cape Town ( South Africa), in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. He is an active Quaker and in 2004 won the Templeton Prize. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Ellis"
Georges-Henri Lemaître ( July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georges Lemaître" The shortopedia spirit shortopedia
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB , FRS ( 1 November 1919– 10 September 2005) was a British (formerly Austrian) mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important contributions to the theory of general relativity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermann Bondi"
Honorius Augustodunensis (died c. 1151) was a very popular 12th century Christian theologian who wrote prolifically on many subjects. He wrote in a non-scholastic manner, with a lively style, and his works were approachable for the lay community in general. He was, therefore, something of a popularizer of clerical learning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Honorius Augustodunensis"
J. Richard Gott is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Richard Gott"
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is a physicist ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Sarfatti"
Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American mathematician. He became a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1985, under the supervision of William Thurston. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)"
Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25 1935) is an Canadian- American theoretical cosmologist.He is usually known by the name "James" or "Jim". He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Manitoba. He completed his doctorate at Princeton University and has remained there since then. He is currently a professor emeritus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Peebles"
João Magueijo is a cosmologist and lecturer in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. He is the author of the controversial book Faster Than The Speed of Light. ...more on Wikipedia about "João Magueijo"
Johannes Kepler ( December 27 1571 – November 15 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German Lutheran mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johannes Kepler"
Professor John David Barrow FRS (b. 1952, London) is an English theoretical physicist and currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is also a popular-science writer and playwright. ...more on Wikipedia about "John D. Barrow"
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has made major contributions to loop quantum gravity. He is currently a long term researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is the author of The Life of the Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, physics books written for a popular audience. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lee Smolin"
This is a list of cosmologists. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of cosmologists"
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