Lepage was a research associate at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1978. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University from 1978 to 1980. In 1980, he joined the physics faculty at Cornell University where he became a professor. He was on the editorial board of
Physical Review D and
Physical Review Letters and received the Outstanding Referee Award from the APS in 2009. He has served on the technical advisory committee for the
Association of American Universities’ Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, and is vice chair of the
National Science Board’s Committee on Education and Human Resources.
Research In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was known for his research with
Stanley Brodsky on
quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and perturbation theory of scattering processes, This method is then applied to the fields of QCD in
atomic physics, computational
quantum field theory,
condensed matter physics,
nuclear physics (little body problem), systems of heavy
quarks and exclusive scattering processes with high momentum transfer. In 2016, Lepage received the
J. J. Sakurai Prize from the American Physical Society for
“innovative applications of quantum field theory in elementary particle physics, in particular for the justification of the theory of exclusive processes, the development of nonrelativistic effective field theories and the determination of parameters of the standard model with lattice theories.” He has authored more than 250 scientific publications. In 2002, together with fellow academics,
Carolyn (Biddy) Martin and
Mohsen Mostafavi, he co-edited a book on the future and relevance of the humanities,
“Do the Humanities Have to Be Useful?” == Personal life ==