Mary Gaillard
American theoretical physicist
Died when: 86 years 52 days (1033 months)Star Sign: Aries
Mary Katharine Gaillard (born April 1, 1939) was 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.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).Gaillard's autobiography is A Singularly Unfeminine Profession, published in 2015 by World Scientific.
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