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Mary K. Gaillard, physicist who broke a ceiling in subatomic research, dies at 86

August 1, 2025 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mary K. Gaillard NYT obituary on August 1, 2025 tells a tale of sexism in the sciences. No Nobel for you young lady, wrong gender. Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Obituaries, Science Tagged: Bruno Zumino, CERN, discrimination, experimentalist physicist, female physicist, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mary K. Gaillard, National Science Board, University of California Berkeley

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