Alexander Kusenko is a theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist who is currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition, Kusenko holds an appointment of Senior Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) since February 2008. He has served as a general member of the board of Aspen Center for Physics 2004-2019. Kusenko was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for original and seminal contributions to particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.[1] In 2021, Kusenko was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.[2] In 2021, he entered a $10,000 wager with Derek Muller over the possibility of sailing straight downwind faster than the wind, which he later conceded.[3]
Alexander Kusenko | |
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 Alex Kusenko in 2011 | |
| Born | March 1966 (age 58) Simferopol, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (BSc) Stony Brook University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics Astrophysics Cosmology |
| Institutions | UCLA Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe CERN University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Shrock |
| Website | http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko |
References
edit- ^ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physisc".
- ^ Woodward, Aylin (Jul 28, 2021). "A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself — and won". Business Insider. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
External links
edit- Official website
- Scientific publications of Alexander Kusenko on INSPIRE-HEP
- Alexander Kusenko publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Scientists may have solved mystery of matter’s origin by Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post
- "Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter’s Dominance over Antimatter" by Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American
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