Robert R. Caldwell

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Robert R. Caldwell
Nationality American
Alma mater Washington University (A.B.)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Ph.D.)
Known for Phantom dark energy
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical physics, Cosmology
Institutions Dartmouth College
Doctoral advisor Bruce Allen [1]

Robert R. Caldwell is an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. His research interests include cosmology and gravitation. [2] He is known primarily for his work on theories of cosmic acceleration, [3] in particular dark energy, quintessence, [4] and the Big Rip scenario. [5] [6]

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He coined the term phantom dark energy. [7] [8]

Career

Caldwell received an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis in physics and French in 1987, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab (1992-4), the University of Cambridge (1994-6, as a member of Hawking’s group [9] ), the University of Pennsylvania (1996-8), and Princeton University (1998-2000). He has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College as an assistant professor (2000), associate professor (2005), and full professor (2010). [10] He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Caldwell - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
  2. ↑ "Robert R. Caldwell - Department of Physics and Astronomy". physics.dartmouth.edu. 2 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Caldwell, Robert R.; Kamionkowski, Marc (2009). "The Physics of Cosmic Acceleration". Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 59 (1): 397–429. arXiv: 0903.0866 . Bibcode:2009ARNPS..59..397C. doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-010709-151330. S2CID   16727077.
  4. ↑ Caldwell, R.R.; Dave, R.; Steinhardt, P.J. (1998). "Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation-of-State". Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (8): 1582–1585. arXiv: astro-ph/9708069 . Bibcode:1998PhRvL..80.1582C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1582. S2CID   597168.
  5. ↑ Caldwell, Robert R. (2002). "A phantom menace? Cosmological consequences of a dark energy component with super-negative equation of state". Phys. Lett. B545 (1–2): 23–29. arXiv: astro-ph/9908168 . Bibcode:2002PhLB..545...23C. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02589-3. S2CID   9820570.
  6. ↑ Caldwell, Robert R.; Kamionkowski, Marc; Weinberg, Nevin N. (2003). "Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday". Physical Review Letters. 91 (7): 071301. arXiv: astro-ph/0302506 . Bibcode:2003PhRvL..91g1301C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.071301. PMID   12935004. S2CID   119498512.
  7. ↑ Mack, Katie (2021-05-04). The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking). Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-9821-0355-2.
  8. ↑ Caldwell, R. R (2002-10-03). "A phantom menace? Cosmological consequences of a dark energy component with super-negative equation of state". Physics Letters B. 545 (1): 23–29. arXiv: astro-ph/9908168 . doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02589-3. ISSN   0370-2693.
  9. ↑ "Dartmouth Professors Remember Stephen Hawking | Dartmouth". 21 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2017-04-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ "APS Physics - DAP - APS Fellowship". www.aps.org.


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