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Cosmology

Charles Bennett
Faculty honors
Astrophysicist Chuck Bennett earns prestigious Rumford Prize
Published Jan 13, 2022
Bennett led the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which 'transformed our view of the universe'; he will be recognized in a ceremony next month
Faculty news
Johns Hopkins theoretical physicist shares 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
Published May 5, 2021
Marc Kamionkowski honored along with two others for work on cosmic microwave background
Conceptual illustration of a researcher looking at a curved universe
Cosmology
Take that, flat universers
Published Spring 2020
Cosmologist Joseph Silk's recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be a curved sphere / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Conceptual illustration of a researcher looking at a curved universe
Cosmology
Take that, flat universers
Published Feb 26, 2020
Cosmologist Joseph Silk's recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background suggests that maybe, just maybe, the universe could be a curved sphere
Nebula
'Hubble Tension'
Cosmic crisis quelled?
Published Nov 28, 2018
Hopkins theorists suggest that an exotic form of dark energy is responsible for a discrepancy in the rate at which the universe expands
Charles L. Bennett poses with gold and silver WMAP device
Breakthrough Prize
Big Breakthrough for Bennett
Published Dec 3, 2017
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles Bennett shares $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for groundbreaking WMAP space mission
A little boy holds a plastic magnifying glass and inspects a rock that is laid out on a note card labeled with the number 4
E.T., stone home
Science rocks
Published Nov 9, 2017
JHU researcher enlists citizen scientists to track down rocks harboring earthly 'extraterrestrials'
Charles L. Bennett
Cosmology
Bennett honored for 'transformative' work
Published June 30, 2017
Astrophysicist receives 2017 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize for 'transformative effect in cosmology'
JHU cosmologist honored
Published Oct 1, 2015
Alex Szalay receives IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
Star bucks
Theoretical physicist honored
Published July 25, 2014
Marc Kamionkowski will receive up to $1M from the Simons Foundation to support his work