Leigh Page (October 13, 1884, New Jersey – September 14, 1952, New Haven, Connecticut) developed the theory of conformal invariance originally suggested by Harry Bateman. Chairman of Mathematical Physics at the Sloane Physics Laboratory of Yale University for over three decades, he is the namesake of Yale’s prestigious Leigh Page Prize Lectures.
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