Joel Primack
Joel R. Primack | |
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| Born | Joel Robert Primack July 14, 1945 |
| Died | November 13, 2025 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Period | UCSC: 1973–2025 UC-HiPACC: 2010–2025 |
| Notable awards | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Award, 1997 |
| Spouse | Nancy Ellen Abrams |
| Children | 1 daughter |
| Website | |
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Joel Robert Primack (July 14, 1945 – November 13, 2025) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.[1][2]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. His fields of study were relativistic quantum field theory, cosmology, and particle astrophysics. He was also involved in supercomputer simulations of dark matter models. He directed the University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC). Primack is best known for his co-authorship with George R. Blumenthal, Sandra Moore Faber, and Martin Rees of the theory of cold dark matter (CDM) in 1984.[3][4] He co-authored two books with Nancy Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe (2006)[5] and The New Universe and the Human Future (2011).[6] He played main roles in starting the Congressional Science and Technology Fellowship program, the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, and the Science and Human Rights program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1970–1973.[7] He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Primack died on November 13, 2025, at the age of 80.[8][better source needed]
References
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- ^ Joel R. Primack, "Dark Matter, Galaxies, and Large Scale Structure in the Universe", SLAC-PUB-3387 (July 1984), in Proceedings of the International School of Physics XCII 1987
- ^ The View from the Center of the Universe. Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Riverhead Books, 2007 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).
- ^ The New Universe and the Human Future - The Terry Lectures. Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Yale University Press, 2012 (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).
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- ^ Joel Robert Primack Neptune Society
External links
[edit | edit source]- The Terry Lectures 2009 - Yale University - first of four lectures on cosmology by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams.
- Joel Primack at IMDb
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