KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Brian Keating
Brian Keating ---PhD, astrophysicist , writer and inventor. He is an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light- more commonly known as "the origin of the universe". We are talking about the big bang… and Keating is at the forefront of that adventure.
His book, just out in paperback, is LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE A Story of Cosmology, Ambition and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor.
The book is a crash course in big bang theory, a behind-the-scenes look at the Nobel Prize and a fascinating ride on the roller coaster that is Brian Keating's life.
Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) at the University of California, San Diego.
He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and he holds two US patents.
In 2007, He received an award at the White House from the hands of President George W. Bush for a telescope he invented and set up at the US South Pole Research Station known as BICEP