Research featured in December 2019 issue of All About Space (UK)
Robert R. Caldwell
|Professor
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Robert Caldwell is a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology. His research addresses questions about the basic properties of the Universe. What is its history and future? What is its composition? What are the fundamental laws that govern its behavior? His research includes topics such as dark energy, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, gravitational waves, and the fate of the Universe.
He received a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1992, and has held research appointments at Fermilab, Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. He has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College since 2000.
Want to trace his physics genealogy? Click here to follow the path through Allen, Hawking, Sciama, and Dirac. His Erdos number is 4, and his Bacon number is 3, for a total Bacon-Erdos number of 7.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
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Contact
646-2742
Wilder, Room 236
HB 6127
Department(s)
Physics and Astronomy
Education
- A.B. Washington University in St Louis
- M.Sc. University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Works In Progress
"Fundamental tests of cosmology"; "Theories of dark energy"; "Primordial gravitational waves"
