Joanne Cohn

Joanne Cohn is an American astrophysicist known for her work in cosmology and her role in the creation of the ArXiv.org e-print archive.

Joanne Cohn
Alma materHarvard University (B.A.)
University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
Known forArXiv
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis (1988)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Friedan and Stephen Shenker
Websiteastro.berkeley.edu/~jcohn/

Education

Cohn graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1983 with an A.B. in physics. She did her Ph.D. on superstring theory at the University of Chicago with Daniel Friedan and Stephen Shenker.[1]

Research

Cohn is a Senior Fellow in the Space Sciences Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] Her current research interests focus on galaxy formation and evolution.[3] She has received grants from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.[1]

Preprint List

Between 1989 and 1991, Cohn maintained an electronic mailing list for sharing theoretical physics preprints or "e-prints". In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg volunteered to create an automated system for sharing preprints, which developed into the arXiv.[4]

gollark: Ugh, *seriously*?
gollark: If you have some sort of multi-hundred-zettawatt coherent light beam, I think you should be able to change the look of the sun slightly.
gollark: They are caused by charged particles interacting with the magnetosphere and something something bremsstrahlung, so if you just beam high-energy charged particles at the atmosphere and somehow avoid having them just interact with arbitrary air atoms, you can trigger auroras.
gollark: It's technically legal to cause localized auroras and then use open broadcasts from weather satellites to detect these.
gollark: Well, you only need a particle accelerator and neutrino detector on each end.

References
  1. "cv: joanne d cohn". w.astro.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. "Joanne D Cohn". w.astro.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. "Joanne Cohn Full Researcher | Department of Astronomy". astro.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  4. "some arXiv prehistory". astro.berkeley.edu.


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