Gaillard, Mary K.
Oral history interview with Mary Gaillard, 2020 April 02.
Dr. Mary Gaillard discusses her experiences as an undergraduate at Hollins College in Virginia, and as a graduate student first at Columbia University, then at the University of Paris at Orsay. She describes her subsequent research on kaons and baryon decay while working for the French National Center for Scientific Research at CERN, her year-long collaboration with Ben Lee at Fermilab, and her eventual return to the United States as the first woman to be a tenured professor in the Department of Physics at University of California Berkeley, focusing in particular on the working environment at each institution. The remainder of the interview deals with the state of theoretical physics over the course of her career and through to the present.
American physicist Mary K. Gaillard. Ph.D., University of Paris, 1968, Professor at UC Berkeley since 1981.
Gaillard, Mary K.
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France).
Columbia University
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Universit ̌de Paris
University of California, Berkeley
Baryons
Kaons.
Theoretical physics
Women in physics
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Transcripts.
Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA