Background
Juliet Lee-Franzini was born of Chinese parents in Paris, France in 1933 and educated in the United States.
Juliet Lee-Franzini was born of Chinese parents in Paris, France in 1933 and educated in the United States.
She earned her Bachelor at Hunter College in 1953, her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1957 and 1960.
She was a successful teacher and many of her students head particle physics research groups all over the world. From 1980 until 1981 she was a visiting professor of Physics at Cornell University. In 1991 Lee-Franzini took the position of Very Important Person physicist at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics, until 1996.
In 1996 she became the Director of at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics. Lee-Franzini served on the Board of Directors of The Foundation of the State University of New York, from 1986 until 1991.
She was on the executive committee of the Division of Particles and Fields at the American Physical Society from 1987 until 1989. From 1989 until 1991 she was on the nominating committee of the American Physical Society as well as serving on the nominating committee of the Division of Particles and Fields.
Her experiments in particle physics were conducted at Nevis Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Penn-Princeton Accelerator, Fermilab, Cornell, and Frascati. Her early experiments at Columbia investigated the quantities of muon decay spectra and also revealed accurate confirmation of the V-A nature of the weak interactive force.
She also studied the spectroscopy of bound state mesons, quark heavy flavor potentials, and the KLOE experiments at Frascati.