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Carthage College

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5.04/30/2025

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Jean Quashnock serves as Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Carthage College, where he joined the faculty in 1999. He earned a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1990, with his dissertation titled "The First Three Microseconds: Cosmic Strings, Axions, and Magnetic Fields," which studied the dynamics of topological defects and phase transitions in the early universe. Prior to Carthage, he performed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, serving there as a lecturer, research scientist, and associate in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He continues to collaborate with researchers at the University of Chicago and Fermilab and has lectured in the Medical Physics Department of the College of Health Professions at Rosalind Franklin University.