Lilienfeld Prize Winner Katherine Freese Researches Dark Matter

August 8, 2019 • by Larissa Herold

The winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize, given annually by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions in physics, develops theories about dark matter and what happened at the start of the universe.

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Katherine Freese. Photo by: Marica Rosengard.


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