Eric R. Wollman is professor and chairman of physics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. His research focuses on conditions in the early universe.

Read an article from March 2005 issue of Scientific American about the most common misconceptions about the creation of the universe.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by George Smoot’s research group.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by Andreas Albrecht.

Read an overview of the field of cosmology by Sean Carroll.

Read UCLA astronomy professor Edward L. Wright’s cosmology tutorial.

Edmund Bertschinger is a physics professor and division head of astrophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His research focuses on the formation and development of cosmic structure after the big bang. He has written articles on the structure and formation of the universe.

James Gunn is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., where he is a leading researcher on the structure of the universe. His theoretical work in astronomy has helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form.

George F. Smoot is co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize; a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and research physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His publications include, as co-author, the popular book Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe.