The Cosmologist - Dan Hooper

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Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
Dan is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy, Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force, and At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds.
He is also the co-host of Why this Universe? On the Chicago Podcast Network.

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