Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University, where she is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Professor Randall was included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of 2007 and was among Esquire magazine's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century." Professor Randall's two books, Warped Passages (2005) and Knocking on Heaven's Door (2011) were New York Times bestsellers and 100 Notable Books. Her stand-alone e-book, Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space, was published in 2012.
"Brilliant and thought provoking...The greatest strength of
Randall's book is that it lacks any overly academic jargon and is
reasonably easy to understand. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
illustrates beautifully that there is so much left to be discovered
about ourselves and the universe that we call home." - BUST
"World-renowned physicist Lisa Randall brings a fresh twist to one
of the world's oldest murder mysteries, the death of the dinos.
With lively writing and wonderfully accessible explanations, she
now convincingly implicates a new suspect as ultimately responsible
for the hit: a novel kind of dark matter." - Max Tegmark, physicist
and author of Our Mathematical Universe
Only Lisa Randall can take us on such a thrilling scientific
journey--from dinosaurs to DNA to comets to dark matter and to past
and future of our species. Randall's research is so thorough, the
story so powerful, and her storytelling so compelling that I could
not put this book down." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of Emperor
of All Maladies
"A cracking read, combining storytelling of the highest order with
a trove of information on subjects as diverse as astrophysics,
evolutionary biology, geology and particle physics. What's
remarkable is that it all fits together." - Wall Street Journal
"Successful science writing tells a complete story of the 'how'-the
methodical marvel building up to the 'why'-and Randall does just
that." - New York Times Book Review
"It's a tall order to cover everything from the Big Bang to today's
ongoing Sixth Extinction in a consistently engaging way for a
general audience. Particle physicist Randall delivers, peppering
serious science with anecdotes about Roombas and fortune cookie
messages." - Discover Magazine
"By grounding one in the principles of cosmology, particle physics,
geology, astrophysics, paleontology and meteoritics, Randall
provides the reader with a broad spectrum look at not only the
world around them, but the worlds around that world, the galaxies
and galactic clusters, filaments, sheets and, eventually, the
Universe." - Paste
"Randall, a Harvard professor, is one of the world's leading
experts on particle physics and cosmology. In Dark Matter and the
Dinosaurs, she takes readers on an illuminating scientific
adventure, beginning 66 million years ago, that connects dinosaurs,
comets, DNA, and the future of the planet." - Huffington Post
"Through Randall's brilliant research we see a universe unfold that
is far grander than anyone at any time could have imagined... She
is a progressive thinker, a visionary capable of bridging the vast
gulf between speculation and reality science." - San Francisco Book
Review
"Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs is . . . a masterpiece of science
writing: a detective story that illuminates the nature of
scientific research while explaining how our very existence may be
connected to unexpected properties of the dark matter that fills
the universe." - Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical
Physics at CalTech
"The nature of the impactor remains unknown, but if it was indeed a
comet dislodged from the Oort Cloud, then Randall's book provides
an entertaining and radical explanation of the events leading up to
their ultimate extinction." - Walter Kirn, author of Blood Will Out
and Up In the Air
"A provocative and revealing account of how scientists like herself
are uncovering deep connections between human existence and the
wider universe. A terrific read." - Timothy Ferris, author of
Coming of Age in the Milky Way and Seeing in the Dark
"Mind-blowing. . . . If [Randall is] correct. . . . it would be a
revolution in human thought every bit as gargantuan as that
precipitated by Copernicus. - House of Speakeasy Blog
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