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Credit: Festival della Scienza | CC BY-SA 2.0
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Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall is an American physicist who serves as the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University.

She is a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology who contributed to the Randall-Sundrum model of warped geometry.

Randall holds several honorary degrees and is the author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions (2005) and Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (2011).