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Brian G. Keating (born 9 September 1971) a professor of physics and astronomy at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at University of California, San Diego , and is Co-Director of the Ax Center for Experimental Cosmology, also known as the Cosmology Research Group, also at the University of California, San Diego. He serves as the Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.

Education
Keating obtained his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University in 1993, his M.S. from Brown University in 1995, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000.

Research
Keating's research area is the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and its relationship to the origin and evolution of the universe. In 2001 Keating conceived the first Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode observing campaign in history, called BICEP (Background Imaging of Extragalactic Polarization), located at the South Pole. In 2014 the BICEP2 successor project announced that it had found evidence of B-modes. Keating is Co-Principal Investigator of the Simons Array, a Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment which consists of three POLARBEAR-2 type receivers located at the James Ax Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. On May 12, 2016, he was named Director of the Simons Observatory, Cosmic Microwave Background experiment co-located near the Simons Array and ACT telescopes in northern Chile.

Losing The Nobel Prize
Keating is the author of Losing the Nobel Prize published in early 2018. It describes the BICEP and BICEP2 experiments, located at the South Pole, devised to detect and map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the big bang. BICEP2's data showed strong polarization signals that were later shown to be caused by interstellar dust. In the book, Keating argues that the Nobel Prizes in science have strayed from their original intent of Alfred Nobel's will, and may hinder scientific progress by fostering unnecessary, and sometimes destructive, competition by limiting credit to only 3 living individuals per prize. Furthermore, he points out that the prizes have been biased against female, and younger scientists.

Recognition
Keating received the Buchalter Cosmology Prize in 2014, and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the National Science Foundation. . Keating is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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