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Mary K. Gaillard

American physicist · United States · Scientists · Lived 1939 to 2025 · aged 86

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Mary Katharine Gaillard was an American theoretical physicist, known for her work in particle physics. She was 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.

A life in dates

2025Died23 May 20252016Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1993Sakurai PrizeAward1989Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAwardGuggenheim FellowshipAward1988Ernest Orlando Lawrence AwardAward1939Born1 April 1939

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Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2016
Sakurai Prize1993
Guggenheim Fellowship1989
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences1989
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award1988
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Spouse: Bruno Zumino

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Mary Katharine Gaillard was an American theoretical physicist, known for her work in particle physics. She was 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.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1939 to 2025 · aged 86

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