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Lisa Randall | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stuyvesant High School Harvard University |
Known for | Randall–Sundrum model Warped Passages |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Howard Georgi |
Doctoral students | Csaba Csáki |
Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most well known contribution to the field is the Randall-Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.[1] She was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University.
Early life and education
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,[2] 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. Randall earned an A.B. at Harvard in 1983, and obtained her Ph.D. in particle physics in 1987 under the direction of Howard Georgi. 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."
Academia
Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is a professor of theoretical physics. Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces, and has involved the study of a wide variety of models, the most recent involving extra dimensions of space. She has also worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmic inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, general relativity. Randall's book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2005.
Randall earned her PhD from Harvard University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and is a past winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. In 2003, she received the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Award, from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. In autumn, 2004, she was the most cited theoretical physicist of the previous five years. In 2006, she received the Klopsted Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Professor Randall was featured in Seed Magazine's “2005 Year in Science Icons ” and in Newsweek's “Who's Next in 2006”. She has helped organize numerous conferences and has been on the editorial board of several major theoretical physics journals.
Personal
Randall's sister, Dana Randall, is a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech.
In 2007, Randall was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People (Time 100) under the section for "Scientists & Thinkers." Randall was given this honor for her work regarding the evidence of a higher dimension.[3]
Randall has written the libretto for an opera, Hypermusic: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes, in collaboration with the composer Hector Parra and IRCAM.
In 2010, Randall was named a "Citizen of the Next Century" by Future-ish.[4]
Students
Some of her graduate students have gone on to become prominent physicists. She has supervised
- Eric Sather
- Csaba Csáki
- Witold Skiba
- Shu-fang Su
- Emanuel Katz
- Matthew Schwartz
- Shiyamala Thambya
- Liam Fitzpatrick
Bibliography
- Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Ecco. 2005. ISBN 0-06-053108-8.
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. Ecco. 2011. ISBN 0-06-172372-X.
References
- ^ Randall, Lisa (1999). "Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension". Physical Review Letters. 83 (17): 3370–3373. arXiv:hep-ph/9905221. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.3370R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3370.
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- ^ Rawe, Julie. "Time 100." Time Magazine May 14, 2007: 108.
- ^ "Future-ish Honor". 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
External links
- Professor Randall's website at Harvard
- Reprinted Op-Ed from The New York Times of Sunday, September 18, 2005
- Lisa Randall's Edge Bio Page
- On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything (New York Times, November 1, 2005)
- Radio Interview from This Week in Science May 9, 2006 Broadcast
- Profile in Scientific American October 2005
- Lisa Randall discusses "Warped Passages" on Thoughtcast
- Lisa Randall is interviewed by Charlie Rose
- 1962 births
- Living people
- American physicists
- Stuyvesant High School alumni
- Women physicists
- Theoretical physicists
- Particle physicists
- String theorists
- Harvard University faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- Harvard University alumni
- People from Queens
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners