Mary K. Gaillard

Mary Katharine Gaillard
Gaillard in 2015
Born
Ralph

April 1, 1939 (1939-04) (age 85)
New Brunswick, New Jersey[1]
Alma mater
Known forStandard Model
Spouses
Jean-Marc Gaillard
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(m. 1961⁠–⁠1983)​
Bruno Zumino
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(m. 1984⁠–⁠2014)​
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorBernard d'Espagnat
Doctoral students
External videos
video icon “One woman’s journey in physics”, Mary K Gaillard, June 1, 2016, CERN.

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]

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]

  1. ^ Hargittai, Magdolna (2015). "Mary Gaillard: theoretical physicist". Women scientists : reflections, challenges, and breaking boundaries. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935998-1. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Gibson, Val (August 2015). "Physics: She did it all". Nature. 524 (7564): 160. Bibcode:2015Natur.524..160G. doi:10.1038/524160a. S2CID 4389262.
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  4. ^ Maiani, Luciano; Bonolis, Luisa (December 2017). "The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958–1993)" (PDF). The European Physical Journal H. 42 (4–5): 611–661. arXiv:1707.01833. Bibcode:2017EPJH...42..611M. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2017-80040-9. S2CID 119365093. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ Gaillard, Mary K.; Lee, Benjamin W.; Rosner, Jonathan L. (1 April 1975). "Search for charm". Reviews of Modern Physics. 47 (2): 277–310. Bibcode:1975RvMP...47..277G. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.47.277. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  6. ^ Ali, A.; Kramer, G. (2011). "JETS and QCD: A historical review of the discovery of the quark and gluon jets and its impact on QCD". European Physical Journal H. 36 (2): 245–326. arXiv:1012.2288. Bibcode:2011EPJH...36..245A. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2011-10047-1. S2CID 54062126.
  7. ^ Ellis, John; Gaillard, Mary K.; Nanopoulos, Dimitri V. (31 January 2012). "A Historical Profile of the Higgs Boson". The Standard Theory of Particle Physics. Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics. Vol. 26. pp. 255–274. doi:10.1142/9789814733519_0014. ISBN 978-981-4733-50-2. S2CID 35488065. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  8. ^ Ellis, John (September 16, 2014). "The Discovery of the Gluon". World Scientific Review. 29 (31). arXiv:1409.4232. Bibcode:2014IJMPA..2930072E. doi:10.1142/S0217751X14300725. S2CID 119255094.
  9. ^ Gaillard, Mary K. (2015). A Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman's Journey In Physics. World Scientific. ISBN 9789814644242. ebook ISBN 978-981-4644-22-8; pbk ISBN 978-981-4713-22-1
  10. ^ Glazer, Amanda (December 4, 2019). "Perseverance, Brilliance and Charm: An Interview With Mary Gaillard". Berkeley Science Review. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  11. ^ Gavela, M. Belén (2016). "Review of A Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman's Journey in Physics". Physics Today. 69 (2): 50–51. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3084.