Mary K. Gaillard
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.
Mary Katharine Gaillard | |
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Gaillard in 2015 | |
| Born | Ralph April 1, 1939 (age 84) |
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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). Gaillard's autobiography is A Singularly Unfeminine Profession, published in 2015 by World Scientific.
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