Lisa Randall
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Lisa Randall is a well-known American particle physicist, and the most cited high energy physicist in the period 1999-2004. Her most famous discovery are the Randall-Sundrum models, proposed with Raman Sundrum in 1999.
Lisa Randall was the first tenured female physicist at Princeton University and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at the MIT and Harvard University.
Randall graduated with a BA from Harvard in 1983, and obtained her PhD in particle physics in 1987. She was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
She is also the author of Warped Passages, a popular book about particle physics.
Bibliography
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden ISBN 0060531088
External Links
Prof Randall's website at Harvard (http://www.physics.harvard.edu/randall.htm)