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Israeli-American theoretical physicist
Avi Loeb
אברהם לייב
Loeb in 2023
Born
Abraham Loeb
(1962-02-26) February 26, 1962 (age 62)
Beit Hanan, Israel
Nationality
Israeli American
Alma mater
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Cosmology, astrophysics
Institutions
Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Shalom Eliezer Lazar Friedland
Other academic advisors
John N. Bahcall
Doctoral students
Daniel Eisenstein
Abraham "Avi" Loeb (Hebrew: אברהם (אבי) לייב; born February 26, 1962) is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He chaired the Department of Astronomy from 2011–2020, and founded the Black Hole Initiative in 2016.
Loeb is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2015, he was appointed as the science theory director for the Breakthrough Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
Loeb has published popular science books including Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (2021) and Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (2023).
In 2018, he suggested that alien space craft may be in the Solar System, using ʻOumuamua as an example.[7] In 2023, he claimed to have recovered material from an interstellar meteor that could be evidence of an alien starship,[8] which some experts criticized as hasty and sensational,[9][10] and for which other experts found more Earth-related explanations instead, demonstrating that the seismic signal attributed by Loeb to the alleged interstellar space craft was actually caused by ordinary truck traffic.[11]
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^Groll, Johan (January 7, 2019). "Thinking About Distant Civilizations Isn't Speculative". Der Spiegel. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
^"Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft". The Independent. July 5, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
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^Siegel, Ethan. "Watch: Harvard Astronomer Mansplains SETI To The Legend Who Inspired Carl Sagan's Contact". Forbes. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
^Richtel, Matt (March 11, 2024). "Surprise: An 'Extraterrestrial' Gadget Was Something More Familiar - In 2014 a fireball from outer space was posited to be an alien artifact. A recent study suggests otherwise". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
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holes. Principal participants include Sheperd S. Doeleman, Peter Galison, AviLoeb, Andrew Strominger and Shing-Tung Yau. The BHI inauguration was held on...
undermines progressive space policy initiatives". In 2021, astronomer AviLoeb launched The Galileo Project which intends to collect and report scientific...
interstellar object, originating from outside our Solar System. From this AviLoeb speculated that the object was instead an artifact from an alien civilization...
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the protoplanetary discs of other stars." In July 2020 Amir Siraj and AviLoeb found that a captured origin for the Oort Cloud in the Sun's birth cluster...
Project headed by Harvard astronomer AviLoeb is one of the few scientific efforts to study UFOs or UAPs. Loeb criticized that the study of UAP is often...
Pete Worden is the project's executive director and Harvard Professor AviLoeb chairs the advisory board for the project. The Breakthrough Starshot program...
Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University AviLoeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University Diana Walsh...
Sky News. Loeb, Avi (12 October 2021). "A.I. Astronauts from Advanced Civilizations". Trail of the Saucers. Retrieved 29 May 2022. Loeb, Avi. "Microbes...
included questions from three scientists. Harvard University astronomer AviLoeb, who co-founded the UFO-investigating Galileo Project, noted that nothing...
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2114B. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.10.012. S2CID 16889489. Bennett, p. 3 AviLoeb (4 April 2021). "When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?". Scientific...
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