"The Nobel prizes have strayed far from the vision their founder had for them, and they badly need to be reorganised."
Brian Keating is a prominent experimental cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his work on the BICEP experiments at the South Pole, which seek to detect primordial gravitational waves, and ripples in spacetime from the very earliest moments of the universe. His research aims to answer fundamental questions about the origin, structure, and fate of the cosmos. Keating has hosted the Clarke Center Into the Impossible podcast since 2016.
Keating’s bestselling book, Losing the Nobel Prize, offers a candid and provocative critique of the scientific establishment and the politics of big science, challenging the notion that awards define success or truth in research.
"[Keating's] project, which will give astronomers an important new tool to peer back in time to our early
universe." — Mark Thiemens, University of California San Diego
