Melissa Franklin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melissa Franklin
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	Sep 30, 1956(1956-09-30)
Age	68
Birthplace	Edmonton
Country	Canada
Birth City	Alberta
Horoscope	Capricorn

Melissa Franklin Biography

Melissa Franklin is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on September 30, 1956 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956) is an experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. In 1992 Professor Franklin became the first woman to receive tenure in the Physics department at Harvard University and she served as Chair of the department from 2010 to 2014. While working at 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 Physical Society. She is currently member of the CDF (Fermilab) and ATLAS (CERN) collaborations.

Since the 1990s, Franklin has been a frequent guest on the CBC Radio science program Quirks and Quarks. Franklin has also been a frequent lecturer and “dramatic read[er]” in the annual Ig Noble Prize Ceremonies and other events of the Annals of Improbable Research.

Melissa Franklin Net Worth

Melissa Franklin is one of the richest Physicist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Franklin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Franklin was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up first in Vancouver, British Columbia and then Toronto, Ontario, where her family moved in 1962. Her father, Stephen Franklin, was a British-born journalist who worked as drama critic for the Ottawa Journal and later as staff writer and editor for Weekend magazine. Her mother, Elsa, was a television producer as well as Canadian author Pierre Berton’s manager and literary agent. Melissa Franklin dropped out of high school to form an alternative school with friends. After attending SEED Alternative School and the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle in London, she studied physics at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1977. In the summer of 1977, while Melissa Franklin was a student at CERN, she was part of a legendary bar-room bet with John Ellis which in part led to the naming of Penguin diagrams.

Franklin earned her physics PhD from Stanford University in 1982 with a 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. For 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.

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Who is Melissa Franklin Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Mirjam Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Melissa Franklin celebrates birthday on September 30 of every year.

What did Melissa Franklin discover?

Melissa Franklin, an experimental particle physicist, has had a career of firsts, some scientific, some social. She was part of teams that discovered two elementary particles: the top quark at Fermilab and the Higgs boson at CERN. In 1992, she became the first woman to earn tenure in Harvard’s Physics Department.

What did Melissa Franklin mom do?

Her mother, Elsa, was a television producer as well as Canadian author Pierre Berton’s manager and literary agent. Melissa Franklin dropped out of high school to form an alternative school with friends.