David Spergel

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), which recognizes extraordinary accomplishments across a variety of fields. 

Physicist Brian Keating details the process by which breakthrough scientific results can be reached and announced, then peer reviewed and debunked. Though his team believed they'd proven cosmological inflation, a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery if...

Douglas Stanford, current Member in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize's 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize, which recognizes early-career researchers who have produced important work in fundamental physics...

There is a crisis brewing in the cosmos, or perhaps in the community of cosmologists, including former Members Stefano Casertano (1983–87), George Efstathiou (1986), and Lawrence Krauss (2005), and former Visitor David Spergel (2014) in the School...