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Cyr-Racine reviews book by Nobel Prize winner Peebles

A visualization of the large-scale structure of the universe, showing galaxies arranged in filaments.
A visualization of the large-scale structure of the universe, showing galaxies arranged in filaments

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was a W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before joining the Department of Physics of Harvard University in 2015. Cyr-Racine joined the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department in August 2019.

His research focuses on particle cosmology, dark matter, and the early universe.

Read the review of Cosmology's Century by Nobel Prize-winning cosmologist Jim Peebles by Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine for Physics Today magazine.