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Melissa Franklin
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This article is about the Harvard professor. For the American swimmer, see Missy Franklin.
Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956) is a Canadian experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University.[1] In 1992, Franklin became the first woman to receive tenure in the physics department at Harvard University and she served as chair of the department from 2010 to 2014. While working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago, her team found some of the first evidences for the existence of the top quark. In 1993, Franklin was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. She is a member of the CDF (Fermilab) and ATLAS (CERN) collaborations.
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Born | (1956-09-30) September 30, 1956 (age 67) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Alma mater | University of Toronto Stanford University |
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Institutions | Fermilab Harvard University University of Illinois University of California Berkeley |
Thesis | Selected studies of charmonium decay (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Gary Feldman Martin Perl |
Doctoral students | David Kestenbaum (more than 20 doctoral students total) |
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