| A professor of physics at the University of Alberta, Don N. Page does research mainly on theoretical gravitational physics, especially black hole thermodynamics and quantum cosmology. He has recently worked on the entropy of near-extreme charged black holes and black holes surrounded by reflecting shells and on finding logarithmic correction terms to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of a black hole. In cosmology, his investigations focus on what a quantum mechanical analysis of gravity can tell us about the size, shape, and arrow of time of the universe. He also has looked at the consequences on a new framework he developed for the laws of psycho-physical parallelism to connect quantum physics with consciousness. Dr. Page received his baccalaureate degree summa cum laude from William Jewell College and earned a Ph.D. in physics at California Institute of Technology in 1976. He was awarded a NATO post-doctoral fellowship to study at Cambridge University where he was a research assistant to Stephen Hawking. Joining the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1979, he became a professor of physics in 1986 and four years later accepted his present position at Alberta. Dr. Page has been a member of the visiting research faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Caltech, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1991 to 2002. He is currently a member of the Collaborative Research Group of the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences and an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. The recipient of research fellowships awarded by Darwin College, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he is the author of more than 120 scientific papers. |
