Lyman Page

Lyman Alexander Page

Born	(1957-09-24) September 24, 1957
Nationality	American
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Princeton University

Lyman Alexander Page, Jr. (born September 24, 1957) is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is an expert in observational cosmology and one of the original co-investigators for the WMAP probe that made precise observations of the cosmic background radiation, an electromagnetic echo of the Universe's big bang phase.

Page obtained his B.A. from Bowdoin College, Brunswick in 1978, going on to obtain his doctorate in 1989 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Page resides in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife and three boys.

Awards

2015 Gruber Prize
2010 Shaw Prize
2006 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 Philips Lectureship
2004 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2003 Marc Aaronson Lectureship & Prize
2003 Primakoff Lectureship
1994 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
1992 & 1994 Princeton Engineering Council Teaching Award
1994 Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar
1993 National Science Foundation NYI Award
1987–1989 NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship

External links

Lyman Page's Homepage

Shaw Prize laureates

Astronomy	Jim Peebles (2004) Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor (2005) Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2006) Peter Goldreich (2007) Reinhard Genzel (2008) Frank Shu (2009) Charles Bennett, Lyman Page and David Spergel (2010) Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman (2011) David Jewitt and Jane Luu (2012) Steven Balbus and John Hawley (2013) Daniel Eisenstein, Shaun Cole and John Peacock (2014) William Borucki (2015)

Life science and medicine	Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer, Kan Yuet-wai and Richard Doll (2004) Michael Berridge (2005) Xiaodong Wang (2006) Robert Lefkowitz (2007) Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka (2008) Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman (2009) David Julius (2010) Jules Hoffmann, Ruslan Medzhitov and Bruce Beutler (2011) Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich (2012) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young (2013) Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Walter (2014) Bonnie Bassler and Everett Peter Greenberg (2015)

Mathematical science	Shiing-Shen Chern (2004) Andrew Wiles (2005) David Mumford and Wu Wenjun (2006) Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor (2007) Vladimir Arnold and Ludvig Faddeev (2008) Simon Donaldson and Clifford Taubes (2009) Jean Bourgain (2010) Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard Hamilton (2011) Maxim Kontsevich (2012) David Donoho (2013) George Lusztig (2014) Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniec (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 65950979 LCCN: n2008077437 ISNI: 0000 0000 7255 0256 ORCID: 0000-0002-9828-3525 SUDOC: 132401983 BNF: cb16159235k (data)

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