Rollin C Thomas

Rollin C. Thomas is an American astrophysicist, currently at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His interests center on cosmology and supernovae. While an undergraduate student at Purdue University, he also studied X-Ray Binaries.



Thomas has been credited with co-discovering numerous supernovae as a member of the Nearby Supernova Factory research collaboration, which studies Type Ia supernovae as tools for determining cosmological parameters.

In 2007, he was named a Luis W. Alvarez Fellow in Computational Science in new Computational Cosmology Center, where he will focus on developing computer models of radiation and its interaction with matter.