MG 15 · 2018
Lyman Page
Lyman Page is an experimental cosmologist whose work helped map the cosmic microwave background with WMAP and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
1957, San Francisco, United States
Princeton University, Princeton, United States
“For his collaboration with David Wilkinson in realizing the NASA Explorer WMAP mission and as founding director of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.”
MG XV, Rome, Italy
Work
The cosmic microwave background preserves information about the early universe, cosmic geometry, and the formation of structure.
Page contributed to WMAP instrumentation and leadership and helped found ACT to measure CMB anisotropies from the ground.
These measurements refined the standard cosmological model and sharpened constraints on the contents and evolution of the universe.