Sean M. Carroll
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Sean Carroll 2017
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5 October 1966 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Residence | Los Angeles, California | ||||
| Citizenship | United States | ||||
| Nationality | American | ||||
| Fields | Physics, cosmology, astrophysics, general relativity | ||||
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology | ||||
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| Thesis | Cosmological Consequences of Topological and Geometric Phenomena in Field Theories (1993) | ||||
| Doctoral advisor | George B. Field | ||||
| Doctoral students | Ignacy Sawicki, Eugene Lim, Mark Hoffman, Jennifer Chen, Heywood Tam, Lotty Ackerman, Kimberly Boddy | ||||
| Known for | Dark electromagnetism | ||||
| Influences | Albert Einstein, Ludwig Boltzmann, Richard Feynman | ||||
| Notable awards | Andrew Gemant Award (2014) | ||||
| Spouse | Jennifer Ouellette | ||||
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Sean Michael Carroll (/ˈkærəl/; born 5 October 1966) is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as Nature, The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist.
He has appeared on the History Channel's The Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Carroll is the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for The Great Courses on cosmology, the physics of time, and the Higgs boson. He is also the author of three popular books: one on the arrow of time entitled From Eternity to Here, one on the Higgs boson entitled The Particle at the End of the Universe, and one on science and philosophy entitled The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself.
Carroll received his PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1993 from Harvard University, where his advisor was George B. Field. His dissertation's title is "Cosmological Consequences of Topological and Geometric Phenomena in Field Theories". He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago until 2006 when he was denied tenure. He is now a research professor at Caltech.
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