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Biography

Michael Turner is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, Depts. of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, at the University of Chicago. He is currently on leave from the University and is serving as the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation for Math and Physical Sciences. He earned his PhD at Stanford University in 1978. His research focuses on the application of modern ideas in elementary-particle theory to cosmology and astrophysics. His publications include: The Early Universe with E.W. Kolb (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, 1990); "The Cosmological Constant is Back," with L. Krauss in Gen. Rel. Grav. 27, 1137, 1995; "Big-bang Nucleosynthesis Enters the Precision Era," with D.N. Schramm in Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 303, 1998; "Cosmic Rosetta Stone," with C. Bennett and M. White in Physics Today, November 1997, p. 32; and "Constraining Dark Energy with SNe Ia and Large-scale Structure," in Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1999.