Abraham Loeb

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
astronomer
author
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem
gptkbp:author gptkb:Extraterrestrial:_The_First_Sign_of_Intelligent_Life_Beyond_Earth
gptkb:Life_in_the_Cosmos:_From_Biosignatures_to_Technosignatures
gptkb:The_First_Galaxies_in_the_Universe
How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_American_Physical_Society
gptkb:Berkeley_Prize
gptkb:Murchison_Medal
Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
gptkbp:birthDate 1962-02-26
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Beit_Hanan,_Israel
gptkbp:children 2
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Shlomo_Havlin
gptkbp:field gptkb:cosmology
gptkb:theoretical_physics
astrophysics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Abraham Loeb
gptkbp:knownFor research on black holes
advocacy for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence
research on the first stars
research on the interstellar object ʻOumuamua
theory of cosmic reionization
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:International_Academy_of_Astronautics
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:Israeli
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physicist
gptkb:professor
gptkbp:position gptkb:Frank_B._Baird_Jr._Professor_of_Science
Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation
Chair of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee
Chair of the Astronomy Department at Harvard University
Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Astrophysical_Journal
gptkb:Nature
gptkb:science
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Ofra_Loeb
gptkbp:website https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
gptkbp:workInstitution gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Avi_Loeb
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5