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Lisa Randall (born 18 June , 1962 ) is a well-known American Particle Physicist , and the most cited high-energy Physicist in the period 1999 to 2004 . Her most famous discoveries are the Randall-Sundrum Model s, proposed with Raman Sundrum in 1999. She is also author of '' Warped Passages '', a popular book about particle theory and the possibility that in certain senses Space-time has more than 3+1 dimensions. Lisa Randall was the first tenured female physicist at Princeton University and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and, more recently, the first at Harvard University . Randall graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980, where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and rival science popularizer Brian Greene . Randall earned a BA from Harvard in 1983 , and obtained her Ph.D. in particle physics in 1987 under the direction of Howard Georgi . Georgi considers her his all-time best student. She was made a fellow of the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences in 2004. Randall was featured in '' Newsweek '' magazine's "Who's Next" issue of January 2 , 2006 , as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation." Randall's sister, Dana Randall , is a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech . BIBLIOGRAPHY EXTERNAL LINKS |
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