Melissa Franklin (physicist)

Melissa Franklin, 2020

Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956 in Edmonton ) is a Canadian-American experimental particle physicist .

Franklin grew up in Vancouver and Toronto as the daughter of a journalist and a television producer and literary agent. She attended the SEED Alternative School in Toronto (a school experiment begun in 1968 in which the students initially looked for their own teachers for summer projects, which later became a high school that was run by the students themselves) and studied physics at the university of Toronto with a Master's degree in 1977 and in 1982 at the Stanford University in Gary Feldman PhD (Selected studies of charmonium decay) , while the dissertation at SLAC anfertigte. Martin Perl was one of her teachers there . As a post-doctoral student , she was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . In 1986 she became an assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked at the Fermilab . From 1989 she was Assistant Professor, from 1991 John L. Loeb Associate Professor and from 1992 Professor at Harvard University (as the university's first female physics professor with tenure from 1992), where she was previously a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows from 1987. She has been Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics since 2004 . In 1995 she was part of the team that proved the existence of the top quark at Fermilab. She has been a member of the CDF collaboration at Fermilab since 1983 and a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN since 2008 , where she was at ISR in 1977 .

She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1997 she received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in Kingston. In 1988 she was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2002 she was one of Discover Magazine's Top 50 Women Scientists.

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