Mary K. Gaillard

Mary Katharine Gaillard ( born April 1, 1939 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American theoretical physicist who works mainly in the field of elementary particle physics.

Gaillard received her bachelor 's degree from Hollins College in 1960 and her master's degree at Columbia University in 1961. Them his doctorate at the University of Paris in Orsay (1964 Doctorat du Troisième Cycle, 1968 Doctorat d' Etat) and was in 1964 a scientist at the CNRS, from 1973 as Maitre de Recherche, 1979/81 group Leader at LAPP in Annecy and 1980-1984 Director of Research at CNRS Annecy. In 1981 she was physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and since 1981 a senior scientist and group leader from 1985 to 1987 in the theory department was. 1964-1981 she was a visiting scientist at CERN and 1973/4 and 1983 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Gaillard is known for a variety of contributions to theoretical physics. So she said with Benjamin Lee (must be 1.5 GeV or below, from studies of the kaon system ) prior to its discovery in 1974 by Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting in the system, the mass of the charm quark. With M. Chanowitz and Ellis they also made a prediction of the bottom- quark mass, also shortly before its discovery. In 1974, she was with Benjamin Lee, a calibration field theoretical explanation of the observed rule ( an isospin selection rule ) in nichtleptonischen hadronic decays. By John Ellis and Graham Ross she said 3 -jet events ahead in quantum chromodynamics ( QCD) and examined jet events as QCD tests. Starting the 1970s, they also examined the predictions of GUTs and made predictions for the Higgs boson. In the 1990s she studied superstring models.

In 1977 she was awarded the Prize of the University of Lyon Thibaud, was 1980 Loeb Lecturer at Harvard, received the 1988 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award of the DOE and the 1993 Sakurai Prize of the APS. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1991 the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

She has three children from his first marriage, and is married to Bruno Zumino.