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How much do you really know about Lisa Randall? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

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She has appeared as a guest on 'The Colbert Report' and 'StarTalk' to discuss physics.

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Randall has made media appearances on both shows, discussing her books and physics concepts in an engaging, accessible way.

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Randall co-wrote a popular science book titled 'Warped Passages' about extra dimensions.

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'Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions' was published in 2005, making high-energy physics accessible to the public.

3.

Lisa Randall won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on extra dimensions.

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She has not won the Nobel Prize. Her influential work on warped extra dimensions is highly regarded, but no Nobel has been awarded for it.

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Lisa Randall is best known for proposing that dark matter is made of tiny black holes.

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She is famous for the Randall-Sundrum model of warped extra dimensions, not for black hole dark matter. That idea is more associated with Stephen Hawking.

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Lisa Randall earned her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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She earned her PhD from Harvard University in 1987, not MIT. Her doctoral work was in theoretical particle physics.

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Randall's research suggests that extra dimensions could be as large as a millimeter.

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In the Randall-Sundrum model, one extra dimension can be large (sub-millimeter scale) while others are tiny, a surprising and testable idea.

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She was the first female tenured professor in the Princeton University physics department.

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Randall became the first tenured female professor in Princeton's physics department in 1998, a milestone for women in theoretical physics.

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She collaborated with the artist Shimon Attie on a public art project about particle physics.

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Randall worked with Attie on 'The Writing on the Wall,' a 2014 project exploring the Higgs boson and the nature of reality through art.

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