Avi Loeb

Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Loeb is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In July 2018, he was appointed as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies, which is the Academies' forum for issues connected with the fields of physics and astronomy, including oversight of their decadal surveys. In June 2020, Loeb was sworn in as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House.

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Beware of 'Theories of Everything' - Avi Loeb

Meteor scientists weigh in on Avi Loeb's latest preprint on supposed meteorite spherules from Pacific Ocean expedition: May be meteorites, but unlikely interstellar/evidence of alien technosignature on Earth

Avi Loeb and Oumuamua: Setting the Record Straight

If politicians had the ethos of scientists - cooperation, discovery, peer review - the world would be a far better place, argues Harvard physicist Avi Loeb.

Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Set to Explore Pacific Ocean for Potential ‘Alien’ Meteor Fragments

Director of National intelligence, Administrator of NASA and Avi Loeb will be discussing our Future in Space and UAP research on November 10.

Harvard's Avi Loeb Thinks We Should Study UFOs--and He's Not Wrong

Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation

Getting a Megapixel Image of UAP - Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues that the best approach to take to possible UFOs is to establish a program to take pictures with a decent camera instead of relying on the kind of blurry pictures the USAF has been putting out.

A Review of “Extraterrestrial” by Prof. Avi Loeb

Harvard’s Avi Loeb Argues That ‘Oumuamua’ Was Really An Interstellar Alien Probe

Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?

"Scientific culture is in the exact opposite place of where it should be. All we’re saying is if the conditions on Earth are replicated on billions of other planets in the Milky Way, maybe you get similar outcomes. What could be more conservative?" Avi Loeb on academic reluctance to study alien life

Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He's Not Kidding

Professor Avi Loeb: 'It would be arrogant to think we're alone in the universe'

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb more sure than ever we were visited by alien spacecraft