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Lisa Randall
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American theoretical physicist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- What Are You Optimistic About?
- North American transportation in figures
- Plant Paradox Cookbook
- Sex and Sidiki 111
- Sex and Sidiki 1
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-06-18 ) June 18, 1962 (age 63) , New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Harvard University
- Known for
- Randall–Sundrum model , Warped Passages (2005)
- Relatives
- Dana Randall (sister)
- Awards
- Klopsteg Memorial Award (2006) , Lilienfeld Prize (2007) , Andrew Gemant Award (2012) , Sakurai Prize (2019) , Oskar Klein Medal (2019)
- Fields
- Theoretical 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 Shufang Su
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joy
- Family name
- Randall
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Sibling
- Dana Randall
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Stuyvesant High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Howard Georgi
- Field of work
- cosmology
- Image
- Lisa Randall-4Nov2006.jpg
- Residence
- Massachusetts
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- date of birth
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- Erdős number
- 4
- social media followers
- 60518
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- name in native language
- Lisa Randall
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Encyclopedic overview
Lisa Joy Randall HonFInstP (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Her research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She co-developed the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.
Early life and education
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