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E. Carlstrom
John E. Carlstrom
University of Chicago
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John Carlstrom is
the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor
at the University of Chicago and the Director of the Kavli Institute
for Cosmological Physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. Dr. Carlstrom
is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the National Academy of Sciences. He has received several awards
including a MacArthur Fellowship. His research focuses on cosmology
through new measurements of the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) radiation. Carlstrom led the DASI South Pole experiment
that made the first detection of CMB polarization. He is the
PI and Director of the new 10-meter South Pole Telescope CMB
telescope recently installed at the NSF Amundsen-Scott South
Pole Research Station. |
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