and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. Turner was President of the American Physical Society in 2013. From 2010 to 2019, Turner served as director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. He was succeeded as director by Edward Kolb. By 2020 Turner was the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at UChicago. Research With Edward Kolb, Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field of particle astrophysics, combining cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments of creation, and he has made contributions to inflationary cosmology, particle dark matter and structure formation, the theory of big bang nucleosynthesis, and the nature of dark energy. His work in precision cosmology combines theoretical work with measurement to better understand and test theories and models using cosmological data. Awards 1984, Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society 1986, Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For outstanding work at the interface of particle physics and cosmology which has led to a new understanding of the early Universe." 1996, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1997, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society 1997, Member, National Academy of Sciences 1999, Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers 2005, Fellow in Physics, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2010, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics of the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics 2017, Member, American Philosophical Society 2020, Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society External links Research page at University of Chicago Astronomy Department Research page at University of Chicago Physics Department Video interview Theoretical Cosmology References 1949 births Living people American cosmologists Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Winners of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics University of Chicago faculty California Institute of Technology alumni Stanford University alumni Scientists from California 20th-century American astronomers 21st-century American astronomers 20th-century American physicists Members of the American Philosophical Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Astronomical Society Presidents of the American Physical Society