Michael Turner (cosmologist)

Michael S. Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, who coined the term dark energy in 1998.[1] He is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and was formerly the Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation from 2003–2006. His book The Early Universe, co-written with fellow Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb and published in 1990, is a standard text on the subject.[2]

Michael S. Turner
Born (1949-07-29) July 29, 1949
Los Angeles
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Known forcoining the term dark energy
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical cosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral studentsMarc Kamionkowski
Arthur Kosowsky

Turner received a B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, and earned a PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1978.

Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field that combines together cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments of creation, and he has made contributions to inflationary cosmology, particle dark matter and structure formation, the theory of big bang nucleosynthesis, and the nature of dark energy.

The National Academy study, Connecting quarks with the cosmos: eleven science questions for the new century, which he chaired, identified opportunities at the intersection of Astronomy and Physics and has helped shape science investment in the US in this area.[3]

Awards
gollark: Well, that and "somehow influencing everything in the universe is quite hard".
gollark: I figure the main problem is "unclear/disagreed-upon definition of evil" more than anything else.
gollark: How does quantum stuff come into this?
gollark: Also, it appears so far as if personality stuff is an... emergent property, I think is the right term... of the lower-level neuron interactions, rather than emerging from quantum effects in one of the neurons or something.
gollark: Not at that stage of the process, no, just when gametes are being made.

References
  1. Turner, M.S. 1999, The Third Stromlo Symposium: The Galactic Halo, 165, 431
  2. Kolb, E.W., & Turner, M.S. 1990, Frontiers in Physics, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988, 1990
  3. Connecting quarks with the cosmos: eleven science questions for the new century / Committee on the Physics of the Universe, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2003
  4. Grants, Prizes, and Awards, archived from the original on 22 December 2010, retrieved 10 February 2010


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