Mary K. Gaillard

Mary K. Gaillard

Mary Katharine Gaillard (born April 1, 1939) is 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary K. Gaillard has received more than 35,236 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary K. Gaillard is the 743rd most popular physicist (down from 697th in 2019), the 11,184th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,065th in 2019) and the 165th most popular American Physicist.