#  Physics was Paradise 

 





May 21, 2014

 

 

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. Read more [here](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/physics-was-paradise/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.21.daily%201).

 

 

 



 

 

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