Mary Gaillard ( Mary Katharine Gaillard , nee. Ralph, Ralph , born April 1, 1939, New Brunswick, NJ ) is an American theoretical physicist and specialist in particle physics. EMERIT Professor of the University of California at Berkeley, member of the NAS of the USA and the American Philosophical Society .
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Biography
She graduated from (bachelor, 1960). She received a master's degree in physics from Columbia University in 1961. She received her doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Paris-South XI in 1968. In 1964-1968 she worked at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Geneva. In 1968, she returned to the United States and in the same year entered the associate researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, where since 1981 he has been a professor of physics, now a professor-emérerite. In 1964-1981, he was also a visiting scientist at CERN and since 1981 a senior researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . In 1996, she was appointed by President B. Clinton for a six-year term on the (2002). She signed the “ Warning to Scientists to Humanity ” (1992) [2] . In 2015, she published an autobiography, A Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman's Journey in Physics.
Member of the NAS of the USA (1991) and the American Philosophical Society (2000), the American Academy of Sciences and Arts (1989), the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Awards and honors: Lyon Academy (1977), Ernest Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy (1988), Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), Sakurai Award from the American Physical Society (1993).
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1077569130 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ World Scientists' Warning To Humanity (English) . stanford.edu (18 November 1992). The appeal date is June 25, 2019. Archived December 6, 1998.
Literature
- Elizabeth H. Oakes . Encyclopedia of World Scientists, p. 259.
- Tiffany K. Wayne (2011). American Women of Science Since 1900, pp. 415-416.