Edward Kolb

Edward W. Kolb
Born	New Orleans, Louisiana
Citizenship	US
Fields	Cosmology
Institutions	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Chicago
Alma mater	University of New Orleans, University of Texas - Austin

Edward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist 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). Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.