Lyman A. Page Jr., Ph.D.

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Physics, Princeton University

Lyman A. Page Jr. received his B.A. in physics at Bowdoin College and his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with thesis advisor Stephan S. Meyer. He has been at Princeton since 1991. His primary research is on measurements of the cosmic microwave background from ground-based, balloon-borne, and satellite platforms with high-electron-mobility transistor amplifiers, superconductor-Insulator-superconductor mixers, and bolometers.

Page is one of the original co-investigators on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, the founding director of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) project, and a founding member of the Simons Observatory. He serves on the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) advisory board for Gravity and the Extreme Universe, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Program Advisory Committee, and the Steering Committee for the Astro 2020 Decadal Review.

Page is a 1994 Cottrell Scholar, an American Physical Society Fellow, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His honors include the Marc Aaronson and Marcel Grossmann Awards, the Shaw and Breakthrough Prizes with the WMAP team, and the Gruber Prize.