[4] She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1980,[5] where she was a classmate of fellow physicist and science popularizer Brian Greene.

[6] She won first place in the 1980 Westinghouse Science Talent Search at the age of 18 and was also named a National Merit Scholar.

She has also worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, and general relativity.

[1] Between the hardback and paperback release of Knocking on Heaven's Door, the quest for the discovery of the Higgs boson was actually completed, a subject discussed in the book.

Randall has helped organize numerous conferences and has been on the editorial board of several major theoretical physics journals.

Randall was featured in Seed magazine's "2005 Year in Science Icons" and in Newsweek's "Who's Next in 2006" as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation".

[31] A rockface along the Mill Creek near Dumont in Colorado, is named Lisa Randall Wall after her by a local climbing society.