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	Hollins College Columbia University University of Paris-Sud
Known for	Standard Model
Spouses	Jean-Marc Gaillard ​ ​ (m. 1961⁠–⁠1983)​ Bruno Zumino ​ (m. 1984⁠–⁠2014)​
Children	3
Awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1988) Sakurai Prize (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Bernard d'Espagnat
Doctoral students	Pierre Binétruy Matt Visser Guy F. de Téramond

External videos
“One woman’s journey in physics”, Mary K Gaillard, June 1, 2016, CERN.

Mary Katharine Gaillard (born April 1, 1939) is an American

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]

Early life

Mary Katharine Ralph was born April 1, 1939, in New Brunswick, New Jersey,^[1] and grew up in Painesville, Ohio, where her father taught history at Lake Erie College.^[12]

She attended

During her time at CERN (1964-1981)[13] Gaillard was considered a visiting scientist, first as a student from Orsay, and later as a research scientist employed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).^[1][12] At one point, she carried out and submitted a survey of women scientists at CERN, documenting clear patterns of blatant sexism against women scientists in hiring and salaries.^[1]

Nonetheless, her scientific achievements at CERN led to her advancement at CNRS.^[1] In 1979 Gaillard established a particle theory group at the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de physique des particules (LAPP), Annecy-le-Vieux, France. She directed the group from 1979 to 1981. She served as director of research at Annecy-le-Vieux for the CNRS from 1980 to 1981.^[13] In 1981, the Gaillards divorced, and she returned to the United States.^[1][12]

Gaillard joined the physics department at the Berkeley in 1981,^[13] becoming the first woman professor of physics.^[1] She was concurrently a faculty senior staff member at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where she headed the Theory Group from 1985 to 1987.^[13]

Gaillard served on several committees of the

Her research accomplishments include pioneering work with Benjamin W. Lee on the evaluation of strong interaction corrections to weak transitions, including the successful prediction of the mass of the charm quark; work with John Ellis and others on the analysis of final states in electron-positron collisions, including the prediction of Three-jet events, and studies of unified gauge theories, including the prediction of the bottom quark mass; studies with Michael Chanowitz of signatures at proton-proton colliders which showed, on very general grounds, that new physics must show up at sufficiently high energies. Her later work focused on effective supergravity theories based on superstrings, and their implications for phenomena that may be detected both in accelerator experiments and cosmological observations.^{[1][12][2][3][4]}

Awards and honors

• 1977, Prix Thibaud,
  Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon^[3]
• 1984, Fellow of the American Physical Society^[14]
• 1988,
  U. S. Department of Energy^[15]
• 1989, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[16]
• 1991, Member of
  National Academy of Sciences^[17]
• 1993, J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics^[18]
• 2000, Member of the American Philosophical Society^[19]

Personal life

She married Jean Marc Gaillard with whom she had three children - Alain, Dominique and Bruno. Later, she married Bruno Zumino.^[1][12]

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