American astrophysicist
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 background radiation.
[6]
Early life and education
Page was born in
San Francisco
[5] in 1957, and moved through
Virginia and
New Hampshire with his parents, eventually settling in
Maine. His father was a
pediatrician and his mother an
artist.
[7] He has a younger brother and sister. He became interested in
physics at
Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine, where he did his
undergraduate studies, after a course taught by Elroy O. LaCasce. He worked on the
Mach’s principle for a course project and was drawn to
cosmology.
[5] Page graduated with a
BA in Physics in 1978.
[3]
Page then became a research technician for 15 months at the
Bartol Research Foundation (now
Bartol Research Institute), being stationed at the
McMurdo Station in the
Antarctica and operating a
cosmic ray station.
[5]
[8] Returning to the
United States, he bought and rebuilt a
sailboat, and started sailing around the
East Coast and the
Caribbean for 2.5 years.
[8] He intermittently worked onshore in
carpentry,
rigging and other kinds of boat service, until he survived a storm near
Venezuela, after which he decided to pursue
graduate studies.
[5]
Rainer Weiss from the
Department of Physics of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) agreed to let Page work in his lab, albeit without pay, so Page worked as carpenter in the day and at Weiss's lab at night.
[5] Eventually in 1983, Page began his
PhD study at the MIT under the supervision of Stephan S. Meyer, completing 6 years later.
[3]
Scientific career
After his
PhD, Page stayed at MIT as a
postdoctoral researcher, and joined the
Department of Physics of
Princeton University in 1990, first as an instructor, and then promoted to
assistant professor 1 year later and
associate professor in 1995.
[3] He became a
full professor in 1998.
[3] Since 2005, he has been successively appointed to different
endowed professorships, including the
Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics (2005-2014), the
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair of Physics (2014-2015) and the
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics (since 2015).
[9]
Between 2011 and 2017, Page was the chair, or Head, of the Department of Physics of Princeton University.
[3]
Page was the founding director of the
Atacama Cosmology Telescope project from 2004 to 2014.
[10] Currently, he is a member of the executive board of the
Simons Observatory,
[11] an Advisor for Gravity and the Extreme Universe at the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
[12] and serves on the board of directors of the
Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
[13]
Research
Page's research centers around
Cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the
electromagnetic radiation from the
Big Bang. In 1991, Page, together with
David Todd Wilkinson,
Norman Jarosik and Edward J. Wollack, conceived of a satellite designed to specifically detect CMB.
[5] They eventually partnered with
Johns Hopkins University,
University of California, Los Angeles, the
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions,
[14] and the effort became the
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) project, which was named in honor of Wilkinson.
[15] The satellite was launched in 2001. Since CMB comes from a time when the
universe began, WMAP enables the study of the universe's early history, including its
expansion, as well as its
composition.
[16]
Personal life
Page met his wife, Elizabeth Olson, during his
PhD years at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Olson is a
biophysics
professor at
Columbia University. They have three boys.
[5]
[17]
Awards
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