15 Facts About Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall was born on June 18,1962 and is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B Baird, Jr.

Lisa Randall's research includes the fundamental forces of nature and dimensions of space.

Lisa Randall graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and science popularizer Brian Greene.

Lisa Randall won first place in the 1980 Westinghouse Science Talent Search at the age of 18 and was named a National Merit Scholar.

Lisa Randall attended Harvard University, where she took Math 55, earned a BA in physics in 1983 and a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1987 under Howard Georgi.

Lisa Randall researches particle physics and cosmology at Harvard, where she is a professor of theoretical physics.

Lisa Randall has worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, and general relativity.

Professor Lisa Randall was the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at Harvard.

Lisa Randall's books Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions and Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World have both been on New York Times 100 notable books lists.

Lisa Randall was commonly asked about the misconception that the LHC could make black holes that could destroy the planet.

Lisa Randall wrote the libretto of the opera Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes on the invitation of the composer, Hector Parra, who was inspired by her book Warped Passages.

Lisa Randall is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Lisa Randall has helped organize numerous conferences and has been on the editorial board of several major theoretical physics journals.

Lisa Randall was given this honor for her work in theoretical physics.

Lisa Randall's sister, Dana Lisa Randall, is a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech.