Ransom Stephens is an American scientist and author.
As a particle physicist, Ransom Stephens worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab (DØ), CERN (ATLAS), and Cornell (CLEO), discovered a new type of matter, and worked on the team that discovered the Top quark.
During the tech boom that ended in 2001, he directed patent development for a wireless web startup, and later became an expert on timing noise.
[1] His specialty at this time was the analysis of electrodynamics in high-rate digital systems.
[3] The novel includes a character loosely based on the physicist Emmy Noether.