Labels:book | bulletin board | lodestone | reckoner OCR: Some 15 billion years ago the universe emerged from a hot dense sea of matter and energy As the cosmos expanded and cooled it spawned galaxies, stars, planets and life JAMES PEEBLES DAVID N SCHRAMM EDWINL TURNER and RICHARD G KRON have individually earned top honors for their work on the evolution of the universe Peebles is professor physics at Princeton University, where in 1958 he began an illustrious career in gravitational physics Most of his free time is spent with his three grandchildren Schramm is Louis Block Professor in the physical sciences department at the University o Chicago When he is not directing the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council, he can be found flying his 1967 King Air. Turner is associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton and ...
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