Anything else I add about my experiences will be misunderstood or misinterpreted. You were the first female theoretical physicist tenured at Harvard. I mostly tell them to take themselves seriously and do their best work. She contributed to the RandallSundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum. LAWYERS AREN'T USUALLY SUBJECT to "a star is born" moments, but Shawn Holley had hers in the early '90s while working in the Los Angeles public defender's office. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Lisa Randall HonFInstP (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr. Nonetheless, instead of remembering a good interview and some nice points about physics and science communication and my new book, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, what people took away were some uncomfortable questions about appearance. Get two questions right, you'll win a prize for one of our listeners - Carl Kasell's voice on their home answering machine, if they have one, telling them to give him 20 push-ups now. I ran on adrenaline throughout the interview, which was full of challenging questions -- I definitely had to duck some uncomfortable ones that I am pretty sure never would have been asked of one of my male colleagues. No, the couple is yet to marry but they are dating for a long time now. Physics is hard enough to explain. In case that answer isn't clear or sounds dismissive, let me elaborate: When you ask me about Larry Summers comments, which arent really very interesting, it diminishes what I do, which I think is pretty important. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. "I grew and took on responsibilities as the company grew," Poster says. Randall's fashion sense and good looks help sell her message: to demystify physics and get more women into the profession. "You get the sense that they want to watch her go down. "When I decide I want something, I go for it," she says. SAGAL: How come people like you can come up with these notions of space and dimensions we can't see? ________________________________________________Faculty Assistant:[email protected], 17 Oxford StreetCambridge, MA 02138(617) 495-2872 phone(617) 495-0416 fax, INTERNAL LINKSHARVie (Information for employees)ROOMBOOK, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. Do you think things have changed in the sciences at Harvard since that comment, and the outrage it inspired? She is currently single. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. By taking time on these distractions you just make my job harder! "I'm not sure where my interest in science comes from," she says. And now the game where we ask really smart people about stupid things. The pace and responsibility were relentlessat any given moment, hundreds of people around the world would be hanging on her decisions. Maybe the dress code was less clear (that is a joke). Can you explain to us in a way that is easy for me to understand what is dark matter? "And we also need to make sure that students are properly supervised and have all the tools they need.". I'm sure lots of people will yell at me and tell me all sorts of exceptions and they will probably be right. But there are measures of success beyond what your immediate colleagues say. But it turns out that's, like, a quarter of what the universe actually is. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. And sadly often reflect more truth than people admit. lists, The pandemic has forced our work friendships to evolve. Yes, I want everyone -- girls and boys, men and women -- to be interested in physics. In an interview with the Smithsonian a few years ago, you said that gender imbalance in the sciences is part of a bigger issue about women in society and I think [the focus on science] is like trying to solve the problem of a dying tree by looking at a little tiny branch somewhere. Can you elaborate on that? It would be better named transparent matter RANDALL: Because you do see dark things. Six months later, she was a part of O.J. DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR SUCCESS. She began her physics career at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. ", Randall is happy to take a pop at string theorists who talk of 10 or 11 dimensions when "nobody really knows how string theory actually works", and she has no time for ideas that incorporate small dimensions. Her research includes elementary particles, fundamental forces and dimensions of space. Why is it so much weaker than standard theory would predict?". "I just don't think in those terms," she says. And that was before I even asked her about Larry Summers. Can you talk about some of the challenges you faced to get to that position? "It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. Yes, they might face extra challenges but maybe that just makes them try harder. SAGAL: I know, OK. Holley sees these women as underdogsalbeit famous onesbesieged by a media that delights in their missteps. I seem to have memories of playing that, but I'm making them up because it was really Messy Backyard. We all advance a lot further by going beyond this. while affiliated with. It's just amazing. Now, when you were doing this in the '80s - starting in the early '80s, were there a lot of women interested in theoretical physics at that time? (Melissa Franklin was the first tenured woman in the Harvard physics department.). In November 2014, Lisa Ann remarked through her Twitter account in regards to demands made to her by previous New York Rangers hockey player Michael Del Zotto. During her first year, the SUR hostess was single but quickly found herself in the middle of a weird love triangle between Jax Taylor and . Lisa Randall at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. BODDEN: Yeah, Tyra Banks went to Harvard, but Tyra Banks can go anywhere. Though Simpson's acquittal was widely seen as a miscarriage of justice, Holley isn't troubled by it. Relationships We have no records of past relationships for Lisa Randall. Despite her initial reservations, Randall agreed to answer questions about the role of women in science -- and why she wishes we could all just move on. In one of those alternate realities her publicist booked her on a cool, reputable show but alas, that's not the reality we live in, so we've invited Randall to play a game called "Everybody line up to get picked for dodgeball!" SAGAL: Yes, a lifelong aversion to exercise. Professor Randall was featured in Seed magazine's "2005 Year in Science Icons" and in Newsweek's "Who's Next in 2006" as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation". And RANDALL: You know, maybe it is good to get around that, you know, to actually know that that's also true. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. The pair married in a modest ceremony attended by close friends and family. 11 to obtain this position she has received numerous awards and honors for her scientific contributions. KNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO STEP BACK. If you ask about the leading women in my field of theoretical particle physics, the same few names will frequently come up, such as Ann Nelson and Eva Silverstein, who -- like me -- have only sisters. "I missed out on the companionship of having women on my course. Lisa Randall, the Harvard physicist and best-selling author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, a fascinating look at the role that the former may have played in wiping out the latter, is a woman of many impressive distinctions. She's also represented other high-profile clients like Sara Jane Olson, the Symbionese Liberation Army bomber who evaded capture for 23 years by reinventing herself as a doctor's wife. . "There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it," she says. Holley went on to head Cochran's criminal division, where she defended rappers like Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. SAGAL: Is it A - Drunken Yoga, exercises you can do safely while inebriated, B - The Art of Walking - how to walk, where to walk, how not to be bored while walking - or C - Modern Ninjitsu - how to navigate malls, airports and DMV offices with maximum efficiency? [8] Professor Randall was the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at Harvard. Does this resonate with your experience at all? No matter how much she bends time, there's no escaping the fact that she's just turned 43 and that if she wants to have kids she's going to have to get on with it soon. A few days later when the show aired, I saw the Twitter reactions and then listened to the heavily edited radio broadcast itself, which focused almost exclusively on the parts of the interview that make people squirm. According to our records, Lisa Randall is possibly single. Lala Kent is reacting to the Los Angeles Times' shocking allegations against her ex-fianc, Randall Emmett. So I actually realized that maybe I should wear some of the clothes in my closet. KURTIS: Well, she got 2 out of 3. See You know, I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. I haven't done a statistically significant study and like all such observations its not clear what constitutes the category. Randall is professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University and one of the most influential living scientists. But interviews in newspapers rarely do this. But Im guessing nurture plays a significant role. "The fact that I was first meant there was no one before me but it wasn't an active thing I was doing. SAGAL: You were a studious kid, and obviously, that paid off in your extraordinarily rapid rise to your position now. Not Randall. EMPATHY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS. "I don't have to believe in an idea to investigate it thoroughly. She was hesitant, to say the least. She's recently written a book called Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. SAGAL: Is it possible that there are dark matter planets with dark matter people who are speculating about the existence of about a fifth of the universe that they can't see but probably has people who are bad at math? Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Randall has also pursued art-science connections, writing a libretto forHypermusic: A Projective Opera in Seven Planesthat premiered in the Pompidou Center in Paris and co-curating an art exhibit for the Los Angeles Arts Association,Measure for Measure, which was presented in Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, at the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, and at Harvards Carpenter Center. Why have they not yet been observed and what might be their implications? Holley was part of O.J. Lisa Randall's research. "Children are the biggest issue for most women in science," she says, "because, like it or not, society still sees women as the primary carers. Photograph: Essdras M Suarez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The idea instead spun out from her work on dark matter. It sounds like a straightforward, Newtonian case of "what goes up, must come down", but whenever Randall gets stuck into the laws of physics - and gravity in particular - things rarely turn out to be as simple as you imagined they would. Yes, we can all have a sense of humor. OK, so it's a joke that might not resonate with those who don't count a scientific calculator among their must-have gadgets, but name another physics professor who tweets more than 3,500 followers messages like, "Natalie Portman, first non-blonde female physicist in a movie" (referring toThor). ", Fifteen years later, Poster is decidedly less fazed by celebrities in her midst. Who is Lisa Randall dating? "They may or may not be right," she says. Heres how it works. "I balanced my laptop on my chest and just got on with it," she shrugs. She is a member of famous with the age 60 years old group. (Melissa Franklin was the first tenured woman in the Harvard physics department. "It can't be a system where we pick and choose who gets a defense. SAGAL: Cindy Crawford, famous supermodel, on the show a few weeks ago, she actually complained. [11][12] She said about the discovery, that even if people don't understand everything about it, "what an exciting thing it is that people are excited that there is something fundamentally new that has been discovered. does not stop you humiliating you just because you graduate high school. My litmus test, when in doubt, is to translate the remark and replace woman with a minority group to the extent the remark makes sense and see whether we would be as forgiving. She is famous for creating - among other things -- the Randall-Sundrum model of the universe, which suggests that our universe is a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space into the elementary particles, except, of course, for the gravitron (ph) are localized on a 3 + 1 dimensional brain. So do you have the opposite thing - that nobody assumes you're gorgeous, and so you have to show up and be gorgeous? But you've been writing books; they've been bestsellers. We want to know what you think about MC@Work. Copyright 2015 NPR. ", Job : Professor of theoretical physics, Harvard University, Before that: President's fellow, University of California, Berkeley; junior fellow, Harvard; professor of physics, MIT; professor of physics, Princeton, Awards : Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 2004, Publications: Warped Passages, 2005; numerous journals, Dislikes : making decisions and having them made for her, Sometimes gravity can be a pain in the heel, Harvard physics professor Lisa Randall tells John Crace, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I dont have all the answers. Her new book is "Dark Matter And The Dinosaurs." RANDALL: But it is the possibility that in addition to the three dimensions we're familiar with RANDALL: Forward-backward, left-right, up-down - maybe there is an additional dimension that we don't experience directly that we call warped. Yes, maybe you eat paleo and have mastered crow pose, but do you practice financial wellness? DON'T UNDERSELL YOURSELF. teachers of America, bless their hearts, are not unaware of their past sins. Despite initially being turned down for a job, Poster hounded the well-known William Morris talent agency until she landed a spot in its legendary mail room. Randall is an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Physics. Randall "stumbled" on the fact that space is warped; accidentally realised, along with Sundrum, the radical implications of Einstein's equation of gravitational background, and proved gravity could be strong in some places and weak elsewhere. This week, we are delighted to welcome Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. Marie Claire is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Maybe they have. Check out our free career boot camp with LearnVesthere (opens in new tab). "I'm happiest when I'm just doing a project," she says. [2] She contributed to the RandallSundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum. One upshot of the Summers episode was that Randall was invited to become a member of the Women in Science panel, a task force set up by Harvard to address the under-representation of women in science and engineering. "It definitely seemed an odd career path," acknowledges Randall, who grew up in a middle-class family in Queens, the daughter of a salesman and a teacher. Professor Randall was on the list ofTime Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2007 and was one of 40 people featured in The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary issue that year. Having said that, she is absolutely brilliant and now does mathematics, so don't get me wrong. Amy Domini and her firm, Domini Impact Investments LLC, are inspiring a greater and greener worldone investor at a time. Once embarked on this track, things snowballed as she started to find other phenomena she hadn't anticipated. The pandemic has completely upended how we do our jobs. ed. But accessibility was not Randall's only motivation. At first she balked at leaving a powerful Hollywood agency for an upstart company, but ultimately she took the job, itching for a chance to carve out her own niche. SAGAL: Now this is interesting - you graduated from Harvard in three years. Read more on Wikipedia. View the profiles of people named Lisa Randall. ", And then she discovered she was pregnant. SAGAL: Hunt Your Dinner? ", Surely Holley has issues securing a pass for clients so cavalier about flouting the law? In 2007, Randall was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People (Time 100) under the section for "Scientists & Thinkers". A gifted teacher, Randall, 49, is so articulate at dissecting physics' most brain-bruising concepts from the nature of minute subatomic particles to the vast reaches of cosmology that she's. She has also worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, and general relativity. ", Randall knows all about the difficulties of being a lone female voice. Randall was given this honor for her work regarding the evidence of a higher dimension. According to our records, Lisa Randall is possibly single. Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, Knocking on Heavens Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, J.J. 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J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 04:04. photos, ed. Authors studied doubly holographic setup in the context of entanglement . ed. She works on several of the competing models of string theory. Lisa married first name Randall. I have no idea how you would work that in reverse. By taking time on these distractions you just make my job harder! she shot back over email. We see its gravitational influence, but we don't see it directly. Simpson's defense team. In autumn 2004, she was the most cited theoretical physicist of the previous five years. She refuses to get involved in personalities, but dismisses both MIT and Princeton as "unhelpful working environments" and was less than impressed when Larry Summers, Harvard's president, suggested at the beginning of the year that there were fewer women scientists because of innate differences between the sexes. 1. Only a very few talk about the books I actually wrote. "There wasn't anything else to do.". LOOKING POLISHED PAYS OFF. But people dont usually associate women with these activities, so they end up focusing on my being a woman who does physics while shortchanging the content no matter what I say -- at least at first. I'm sorry. RANDALL: Yeah, that one actually - that was my second choice. This effectively solved the geometry of a high dimensional model of space and Randall's papers are now among the most cited in particle physics but, as she freely admits, this was not the problem she set out to answer. She's like a little girl who's in a scary place, and there are a lot of people rooting for her to fail." "It's the job of the prosecution to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubtif he was guilty and got away with murder, then the prosecution failed," she says plainly. "We so much want science to say, 'This is the way it works,' that we lose sight of the fact that this uncertainty is actually interesting," she told Jon Stewart during an appearance onThe Daily Showlast October. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found a particle identified as the Higgs boson. We will update Lisa Randall's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. 2. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. We are so excited to have her on so she can explain to me what I just said. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could. "I needed that time to recharge my batteries," she explains. I find that a lot of the issues that concern me are issues I'll talk about with women in completely different fields or occupations. Soon after, she got a call from Miramax Films, then a hot foreign- and indie-film distribution company helmed by two brash no-name brothers. I might be the only person who cares enough to know this fact even in my field. It has implications for the standard model of particle physics, which embodies everything scientists know about the fundamental particles of the universe. The website pecentral, for PE teachers, even as a hall of shame for terrible gym classes of the past, including will old classics like Red Rover and Dodgeball and which of these? Though almost half of all law students are women, only 19 percent ever make it to partner, largely because the profession, with its emphasis on billable hours, can be ruthless to women looking to squeeze a family into the mix. RANDALL: Except I think you said gravitron, which sounds like a game rather than graviton, which is actually the particle that communicates SAGAL: Oh, I'm sorry. And we thought maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane. Randall's books Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions and Knocking on Heavens Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World have both been on New York Times 100 notable books lists. "My son fell in love with Rachel Roy on the set ofProject Runway," says Poster, who spends downtime taking her kids to movies and plays. The couple were married until Frank's death in 2015. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. Harold was born on October 15 1915, in Mine La Motte, Madison Co., MO. ", The daughter of a swimsuit manufacturer, Poster grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where her grandmother would sneak her out of school to take her to the movies. Randall has helped organize numerous conferences and has been on the editorial board of several major theoretical physics journals. Showing 3 records of 7 Criminal Records & Traffic Violations that matched the name Lisa Randall: Disclaimer: By using this . This interview was lightly edited for clarity and length. RANDALL: (Laughter) I actually went surfing with someone who surfed with Cindy Crawford RANDALL: And said something like, you know, they were really afraid that, you know, like, her face - you know, something would happen. Randall is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004) and the National Academy of Sciences (2008),[2] the American Philosophical Society,[17] and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Three questions about phys ed for a physics professor. This goes for reviewers as well as for interviewers. "I was always good at math, but I was good at everything," says Randall, a professor at Harvard University who is widely regarded as the nation's pre-eminent theoretical physicist which means she's an ace in an ber-wonky branch of science that uses math to unlock the mysteries of nature. So in general, what did I mean? Fun fact: He is married with three kids. To pick a few (but definitely not all), she was the first female theoretical physicist to get tenure at either Harvard or Princeton (she got tenure at both); one of the 100 most influential people of 2007, according to Time magazine; and, during. RANDALL: You know, basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics. So have you had to learn to present yourself differently than back during the many, many days when you were just in the lab or in a classroom working out problems? You have been referred to - not by me - as the physics babe. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. This is Marie Claire's guide to navigating your career in a COVID-19 world. Menu. And then you did your Ph.D., also at Harvard, in just four years. SAGAL: By the way, everything I said I copied from Wikipedia. ", As a female partner at a law firm, Holley is a rarity. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics, which is given annually for significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics. Accuracy and availability may vary. They are reportedly together since the late 2010s but there is nothing about their plan to marry. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Do you think your childhood had anything to do with that? BODDEN: Would asking who's the sexiest scientist be like asking who's the smartest model? Lisa Randalls income source is mostly from being a successful . ", Randall, who earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard in just three years, has always been exceptional. "All I will say is that, if we do ever understand the structure of the universe, then it's likely my ideas will play some part in it. But here is what is really interesting and is also totally unscientific. RANDALL: Actually, it is about five times as much dark matter as ordinary matter. Its difficult to convey the subtleties involved in a short Q&A. We all advance a lot further by going beyond this.. Peggy was born on April 4 1926. Whether inadvertently or deliberately, people tend to support others like themselves. Women at universities therefore dont always receive the same type of support that men do. "No one is ever going to get the answer they're looking for,". On an individual level I can probably change minds. ", But, on a personal level, crunch time for Randall is rapidly approaching. Aren't you lucky? Do your female students have concerns about entering a male-dominated field? And they don't expect RANDALL: And that's actually a disadvantage in some ways, too. But it's been a hard struggle at times." Like many scientists, I'm something of an obsessive.". Randall sees it slightly differently.
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