Lyman Page is the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. He is an expert in observational cosmology

Physical cosmology

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. For most of human history, it was a branch of metaphysics and religion...

 and one of the original co-investigators for the WMAP probe that, over the past years, has made the most precise observations yet of the cosmic background radiation, an electromagnetic

Electromagnetic radiation

Electromagnetic radiation is a form of energy that exhibits wave-like behavior as it travels through space...

 echo of the Universe's big bang

Big Bang

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 phase.

Page obtained his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...

, Brunswick

Brunswick, Maine

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 in 1978, going on to obtain his doctorate

PHD

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 in 1989 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

, Cambridge.

Awards

• 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 Schola
• 1993 National Science Foundation NYI Award
• 1987–1989 NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship

External links

• Lyman Page's Homepage