Professor Lyman A Page Jr was born in San Francisco, California 1957. He received a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He is currently the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University and a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2010 is awarded in equal shares to Charles L Bennett, Lyman A Page Jr and David N Spergel for their leadership of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) experiment, which has enabled precise determinations of the fundamental cosmological parameters, including the geometry, age and composition of the universe.