Mary K. Gaillard
American physicist (born 1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mary Katharine Gaillard (born April 1, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Her focus is on particle physics. She is a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, and visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was Berkeley's first tenured female physicist.[2]
Mary Katharine Gaillard | |
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Born | Ralph April 1, 1939 (1939-04) (age 85) |
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Known for | Standard Model |
Spouses | Jean-Marc Gaillard
(m. 1961–1983)Bruno Zumino (m. 1984–2014) |
Children | 3 |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard d'Espagnat |
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“One woman’s journey in physics”, Mary K Gaillard, June 1, 2016, CERN. |
Her important contributions include prediction of the mass of the charm quark prior to its discovery (with B. W. Lee); prediction of 3-jet events (with J. Ellis and G.G. Ross); and prediction of b-quark mass (with M.S. Chanowitz and J. Ellis).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Gaillard's autobiography is A Singularly Unfeminine Profession, published in 2015 by World Scientific.[9][10][11]