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Big Think Interview with Melissa Franklin
A conversation with the Harvard Professor of Physics. … Watch
October 27, 2009 | In Science & Tech
Melissa Franklin is the first woman ever to achieve tenure in the Harvard physics department. She is an experimental particle physicist who has been working on the Collider Detector at Fermilab, an experiment designed generally to study the collisions of protons and anti-protons at the highest energies currently possible. In January, she will be working at the new Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.