Education
University of Toronto. Stanford University.
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Melissa Franklin
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While working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago, her team found some of the first evidences for the existence of the top quark. In 1993, Franklin was elected a fellow of the American Society of Physics. Franklin grew up in Toronto, Canada.
She dropped out of high school to form an alternative school with friends.
After attending SEED Alternative School she studied physics at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1977. Franklin earned her physics Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1982 with thesis titled "Selected studies of charmonium decay" under the supervision of Gary Feldman, working with the school"s linear accelerator, SLAC. She did postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
In 1988 she became an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and worked at Fermilab in Chicago. In 1987 she joined Harvard University, later becoming the physics department"s first tenured woman professor
Foreign over a decade, Franklin traveled between Boston and Chicago every few weeks, to check on and fix equipment at Fermilab.
In 1995, her team proved the existence of the top quark.
Membership
American Physical Society]
She is currently member of the CDF (Fermilab) and Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (European Organization of Nuclear Research) collaborations.
