Melissa Franklin | |
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| Born | September 30, 1956 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| 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) |
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.
- ^ "Melissa Franklin". Department of Physics, Harvard University. Retrieved 16 March 2023.