Keith Olive
Keith Alison Olive is a theoretical physicist, and
director at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Keith Alison Olive
Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in Born October 28, 1956
particle physics and cosmology. His main topics of Chicago, United States
research are: big bang nucleosynthesis, which is an Alma mater University of Chicago
explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes Awards Hans A. Bethe Prize 2018
through 7Li; particle dark matter; big bang
Scientific career
baryogenesis, which is an explanation of the matter-
antimatter asymmetry observed in nature; and inflation Fields Cosmology, Big Bang
which is a theory constructed to resolve many nucleosynthesis
outstanding problems in standard cosmology.[1] Institutions University of Minnesota
Doctoral David Schramm
advisor
Education and career
Olive received in 1978 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master's
degree in physics in the same year and in 1981 a PhD in physics. His dissertation dealt with cosmology
and particle physics. In 1982/83 he was at CERN (working with John Ellis). There Olive began his
research on supersymmetry.
Olive is a professor at the University of Minnesota, where in 1998 he became McKnight University
Professor. At the Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, he was the director from 1999 to 2005 and again from
2013 to 2019.
Honors and awards
Olive was the 2018 Hans A. Bethe Prize Recipient;[2] elected a fellow of the American Physical Society
in 2003; [1][3] awarded the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award for the years 1987–
1994;[4][1] elected University of Minnesota Distinguished McKnight Professor 1998–present;[5][1] and
granted the George W. Taylor Award for distinguished Research in 1988 by the College of Science and
Engineering at the University of Minnesota.[6]
Publications
He is one of the editors of a book, Inner Space/Outer Space,[7][8] The University of Chicago Press (1986)
and a number of journal articles. His most cited article, cited 2,357 times according to Google Scholar [9]
is "Supersymmetric relics from the big bang".
References
1. "School of Physics and Astronomy" ([Link] College of Science and
Engineering. October 27, 2023.
2. "Prize Recipient" ([Link]
[Link].
3. "APS Fellow Archive" ([Link]
[Link].
4. "NSF Award Search: Award # 8657267 - Presidential Young Investigator Award: Theoretical
High Energy Physics" ([Link]
storicalAwards=false). [Link].
5. "Distinguished Mcknight Professors" ([Link]
[Link]/awards/mcknight/mcknight_distinguished.html). Archived from
the original ([Link]
l) on May 12, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
6. George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research ([Link]
wards#research)
7. "Inner Space/Outer Space" ([Link]
9). [Link].
8. Kolb, Edward W.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1986). Inner space/outer space :
the interface between cosmology and particle physics. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. ISBN 0-226-45033-3. OCLC 12722850 ([Link]
9. "Google Scholar" ([Link]
upersymmetric+Relics+from+the+Big+Bang&btnG=). [Link].
External links
Science Watch December 2011 ([Link]
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