Melissa Franklin

Melissa Franklin
Born	(1956-09-30) September 30, 1956 (age 67) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Alma mater	University of Toronto Stanford University
Scientific career
Institutions	Fermilab Harvard University University of Illinois University of California Berkeley
Thesis	Selected studies of charmonium decay (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Gary Feldman Martin Perl
Doctoral students	David Kestenbaum (more than 20 doctoral students total)

Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956) is a Canadian experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University.^[1] In 1992, 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 a member of the CDF (Fermilab) and ATLAS (CERN) collaborations.