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Michael S. Turner

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Michael S. Turner
Born (1949-07-29) July 29, 1949 (age 75)
Los Angeles
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Known forcoining the term dark energy
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical cosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral studentsMarc Kamionkowski
Arthur Kosowsky
External videos
video icon Michael Turner - The Dark Side of the Universe, April 8, 2011.

Michael S. Turner (born July 29, 1949)[1] is an American theoretical cosmologist who coined the term dark energy in 1998.[2] He is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Chicago,[3] having previously served as the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor,[4] and as the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation.[1]

Turner's book The Early Universe, co-written with fellow Chicago cosmologist Edward Kolb, is a standard text on the subject.[5][6][7] The 2003 National Academy study, Connecting quarks with the cosmos: eleven science questions for the new century, which Turner chaired, identified opportunities at the intersection of astronomy and physics and has helped shape science investment in the US in this area.[8] In 2022, Turner was appointed as a co-leader, with Maria Spiropulu, of a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine study, leading a committee of 17 physicists world-wide to consider the strategic vision of research in elementary particle physics.[3]

Education

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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.[9]

Career

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Turner became an instructor in physics at Stanford University in 1978, and was a fellow at the Enrico Fermi Institute from 1978 to 1980. He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1981 to 1982, and became a scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill, in 1983.[1]

Turner joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics in 1980, rising to associate professor and then full professor as of 1985. He served as chair of the department from 1997 to 2003, and was named the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1998.[1] He held a joint appointment as one of the founding members of the NASA/Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the NASA Fermilab Astrophysics Center (NFAC).[10][11]

In addition, Turner served as the president of the Aspen Center for Physics from 1989 to 1993, and the assistant director of the National Science Foundation for Mathematical and Physical Sciences from 2003 to 2006.[1] He has served on committees for the Department of Energy, NASA, NSF, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.[9] Turner was president of the American Physical Society in 2013.[1]

From 2010 to 2019, Turner served as director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He was succeeded as director by Edward Kolb.[12] By 2020 Turner was the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at UChicago.[13]

Research

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With Edward Kolb, Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field of particle astrophysics, combining cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe.[10] 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.[4] His work in precision cosmology combines theoretical work with measurement to better understand and test theories and models using cosmological data.[14][11]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Turner, Michael Stanley". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  2. ^ Turner, Michael S. (1999). Gibson, Brad K.; Axelrod, Rim S.; Putman, Mary E. (eds.). The Third Stromlo Symposium, the galactic halo : proceedings of a symposium held at Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, Australia, 17-21 August, 1998. Vol. 165. San Francisco, Calif.: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. p. 431. ISBN 1-886733-86-4. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Lerner, Louise (October 3, 2022). "UChicago scientists to help lay out vision for future of particle physics | University of Chicago News". UChicago News. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Michael S. Turner". The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Archived from the original on September 29, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  5. ^ Egan, Chas A.; Charles H., Lineweaver (2010). "A Larger Estimate of the Entropy of the Universe". The Astrophysical Journal. 710 (2): 1825–1834. arXiv:0909.3983. Bibcode:2010ApJ...710.1825E. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/710/2/1825. S2CID 1274173. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  6. ^ Press, W. H. (August 17, 1990). "The Early Universe. Edward W. Kolb and Michael S. Turner. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1990. xxii, 547 pp., illus. $48.50. Frontiers in Physics, 69". Science. 249 (4970): 808–809. doi:10.1126/science.249.4970.808-a. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17756792.
  7. ^ Kolb, Edward W.; Turner, Michael S. (1990). The early universe. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
  8. ^ 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 of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (March 12, 2003). Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/10079. ISBN 0-309-07406-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ a b "Chandra Press Room :: CXC Biographies :: Michael S. Turner". Chandra X-ray Observatory. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  10. ^ a b Grim, Kathryn (2010). "Fermilab physicists honored for uniting physics and cosmology". Fermilab Today. Archived from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  11. ^ a b Turner, Michael S. (September 26, 2022). "The Road to Precision Cosmology". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 72 (1): 1–35. arXiv:2201.04741. Bibcode:2022ARNPS..72....1T. doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-111119-041046. ISSN 0163-8998. S2CID 245906450.
  12. ^ "Edward 'Rocky' Kolb to direct Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics | University of Chicago News". UChicago News. February 26, 2019. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  13. ^ "Two $5 million gifts to support Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics | University of Chicago News". UChicago News. September 30, 2020. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  14. ^ a b "Michael S. Turner". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  15. ^ "Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  16. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Archived from the original on April 15, 2023. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  17. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 159 New Fellows". The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 24, 1996. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  18. ^ "Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on March 11, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  19. ^ "Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  20. ^ "Klopsteg Memorial Lecture". American Association of Physics Teachers. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  21. ^ "AAAS News and Notes". Science. 310 (5748): 634–637. October 28, 2005. doi:10.1126/science.310.5748.634. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 220094341. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  22. ^ "Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  23. ^ "Michael Turner Senior Strategic Advisor". Kavli Foundation. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  24. ^ "Department News: 2020". The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago. 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
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