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Prof. Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and a student of particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe.

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World.

Her best known contribution to the field is the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum. However, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to provide any evidence to substantiate the validity of this theory. She was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard University. She has also written two popular science books and the libretto of an opera.

Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is a professor of theoretical physics. Her research concerns elementary particles and fundamental forces, and has involved the study of a wide variety of models, the most recent involving extra dimensions of space. She has also worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmic inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, general relativity. Randall's book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2005.

Selected Publications:

• L. Randall, Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
• L. Randall, Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions, New York: Ecco, 2005.
• A. Karch and L. Randall, "Relaxing to Three Dimensions," HUTP-05-A0029, UW-PT-05-14 (2005) hep-th/0506053
• L. Randall and M. D. Schwartz, "Unification and the Hierarchy from AdS5," Phys.Rev.Lett. 88 081801 (2002), http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108115
• A. Karch and L. Randall, "Locally Localized Gravity," JHEP 0105 L. Randall and R. Sundrum, "An Alternative to Compactification," Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 4690-4693 (1999) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906064
• L. Randall and R. Sundrum, "A Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension," Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 3370-3373 (1999) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9905221

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Prof. Lisa Randall