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Lisa Randall
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Image:LisaRandallRed.JPG thumb|Lisa Randall at Harvard University
'''Lisa Randall''' (born
18 June,
1962) is a well-known American
particle physics particle physicist, and the most cited high-energy
physicist in the period
1999 to
2004. Her most famous discoveries are the
Randall-Sundrum models, proposed with
Raman Sundrum in 1999.
She is also author of ''
Warped Passages'', a popular book about particle theory and the possibility that in certain senses
space-time has more than 3+1 dimensions.
Lisa Randall was the first tenured female physicist at
Princeton University and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at
MIT and, more recently, the first at
Harvard University.
Randall graduated from
Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and rival science popularizer
Brian Greene. Randall earned a BA from Harvard in
1983, and obtained her Ph.D. in particle physics in
1987 under the direction of
Howard Georgi. Georgi considers her his all-time best student. She was made a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. Randall was featured in ''
Newsweek'' magazine's "Who's Next" issue of
January 2,
2006, as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation."
Randall's sister,
Dana Randall, is a professor of computer science at
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech.
Bibliography
*{{cite book | author=Randall, Lisa | title=Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions | publisher=Ecco | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0060531088}}
External links
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Prof Randall's website at Harvard
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Reprinted Op-Ed from The New York Times of Sunday, September 18th 2005
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Lisa Randall's Edge Bio Page
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On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything
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