Don Nelson Page grew up in small isolated Eskimo and Indian villages in Alaska. He studied by correspondence until he went to William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, receiving a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics in 1967. He completed a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy in 1976 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, under the supervision of Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking. Page was a postdoctoral researcher under Hawking at the University of Cambridge in England 1976-79. He took up a faculty position in the Physics Department at Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, becoming Professor in 1986. In 1990 he moved to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Page married Catherine Anne Hotke in 1986. They have three biological children, Andrew (born 1987), John (1989), and Anna (1995), and two girls adopted from Haiti, Marie (born 1993 or 1994) and Ziliana (1997).
Papers by Dr. Don Page, including the primary paper his talk “Does God So Love the Multiverse?” is based on (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=f+a+d+n+page).