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Farrar, Glennys
Oral history interview with Glennys Farrar, 2020 July 14.
In this interview, Glennys Farrar, professor at New York University, discusses her career and shifting interests within physics. She details her time as an undergraduate student at University of California, Berkeley. Farrar discusses how she chose to attend Princeton University for graduate school to further her interest in particle theory. She discusses her thesis research which calculated the rate of decay for The Lambda under the mentorship of her advisor Sam Treiman. She describes the social isolation she faced within the physics department as the only woman. Farrar discusses her time as a postdoc at Caltech and details her research on the pion decay constant, as well as pioneering the field of phenomenological supersymmetry. Additionally, she speaks on the sexism she experienced while at Caltech. She details her experience at Rutgers University where she worked on Hadron Physics. Farrar discusses her time at New York University as Chair of the Department of Physics and her efforts putting together a strong faculty. She also details her growing interest in cosmology at this time and describes founding the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics. She also speaks about her work on the stellar tidal disruption phenomenon. Lastly, Farrar notes her excitement for the increase in computation power in the future and reflects on the merging of different fields of physics.
American physicist. Ph.D. physics, Princeton University (1971). Collegiate Professor of Physics at New York University.
Farrar, Glennys
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Quinn, Helen R.
Treiman, Sam B.
California Institute of Technology
New York University
Princeton University
Rutgers University
University of California, Berkeley
Cosmology
Hadrons.
Particle physics. gtt
Phenomenology.
Sexism in science.
Supersymmetry
Tides.
Women in physics
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Oral histories. aat
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Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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