Lisa Randall
| Lisa Randall | |
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Lisa Randall at TED
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| Born |
June 18, 1962 Queens, New York City, United States |
| Residence | Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Alma mater |
Stuyvesant High School Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Howard Georgi |
| Doctoral students | Csaba Csáki, Eric Sather, Witold Skiba, Shu-fang Su, Emanuel Katz, Matthew Schwartz, Shiyamala Thambyahpillai, Liam Fitzpatrick, David Simmons-Duffin, Brian Shuve |
| Known for |
Randall–Sundrum model Warped Passages |
| Notable awards |
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2006) Lilienfeld Prize (2007) Andrew Gemant Award (2012) |
Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. Her research includes elementary particles, fundamental forces and extra dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of extra dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.
Randall was born in Queens in New York City. She is an alumna of Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and science popularizer Brian Greene. She won first place in the 1980 Westinghouse Science Talent Search at the age of 18. At Harvard University, Randall earned both an B.A. in physics (1983) and a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics (1987) under Howard Georgi.
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