Lyman Page

Lyman A. Page Jr.
Lyman in 2005
Born
Lyman Alexander Page, Jr.[3]

(1957-09-24) September 24, 1957 (age 67)[4]
NationalityAmerican
EducationBowdoin College (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forCo-leading the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe project
SpouseElizabeth Olson[5]
Children3
AwardsMarc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship
Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[1]
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bartol Research Foundation
ThesisA measurement of the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy (1989)
Doctoral advisorStephan S. Meyer [2]

Lyman Alexander Page, Jr. (born September 24, 1957) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is an expert in observational cosmology and one of the original co-investigators for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) project that made precise observations of the electromagnetic radiation from the Big Bang, known as cosmic microwave background radiation.[6]

  1. ^ "Lyman Page, Jr. and the WMAP Science Team". Breakthrough Prize. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  2. ^ "Lyman Alexander Page". INSPIRE-HEP. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  3. ^ "Lyman Alexander Page Jr" (PDF). Princeton University. May 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  4. ^ "Lyman A. Page". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  5. ^ "Autobiography of Lyman A Page Jr". Shaw Prize Foundation. Archived from the original on July 4, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "Lyman Page". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.