| LC control no. | no2003010356 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Loeb, Abraham |
| Variant(s) | Loeb, Avi |
| See also | Employer: Harvard University Employer: Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) Graduate of: Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim |
| Other standard no. | Q2821842 32332502 000000011616530X |
| Birth date | 1962 |
| Place of birth | Beit Hanan (Israel) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics Cosmology |
| Affiliation | Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.) |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists College teachers |
| Found in | In the beginning, c2001: t.p. (Abraham Loeb, Dept. of Astronomy, Harvard University) The first galaxies in the universe, c2013: ECIP t.p. (Abraham Loeb) data view (b. 1962) Extraterrestrial, 2021: ECIP title page (Avi Loeb) Avi Loeb's website, viewed May 26, 2020: home page (Professor Avi Loeb; Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University) curriculum vitae page (Abraham Loeb; field of research: theoretical astrophysics and cosmology; academic degrees: 1986 Ph.D. in Physics, 1985 M.Sc. in Physics, 1983 B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; positions held: 1988-1993, Long-term member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; started at Harvard University in 1993 as Assistant Professor, Astronomy Dept., becoming Associate Professor in 1995, Professor of Astronomy in 1997, Chair of the Astronomy Dept. in 2011, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science in 2012) <https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/> Wikipedia, viewed May 26, 2020 (Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Loeb was born in Beit Hanan, Israel in 1962 and took part in the national Talpiot program before receiving a graduate degree in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Between 1988 and 1993, Loeb was a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993, he moved to Harvard University as an assistant professor in the department of astronomy, where he was tenured three years later) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb> |
| Associated language | eng |
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