Professor
Lyman Alexander Page
Princeton University
Astrophysicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
2004
Professor of Physics. Developed new techniques to study the universe through the cosmic background radiation (CMB). Formulated experiments that measured the first peak in the CMB angular power spectrum, providing a determination of the total matter density in our universe. Founding member of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Project. Founding director of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) project.
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