Melissa Franklin
Melissa Franklin
Physics Professor, Harvard University
- First female physics professor at Harvard University- Experimental particle physicist- Part of iconic, world-changing experimental teams
- Experimental particle physicist
- Part of iconic, world-changing experimental teams
Q&A
What do you love about your job?
I love teaching and making particle detectors work. I also like problem solving in data analysis. I enjoy looking at the data and figuring out what it is telling me.
Who were some of your role models as a kid?
I am not sure I had a role model growing up, but I did admire a lot of people. I admired physicist, Richard Feynman, and also European film directors and novelists. Certainly my mother was one of my role models. She worked full time producing TV shows, showing me that you could be a powerful and productive woman and
have a family.
Who's your current girlcrush?
Right now it is a dead physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer. She won the Nobel prize in physics in 1963. She was bad-ass!
SO smart, funny, and brilliant.
"My best piece of advice
is simple; if you want to do anything well, it takes A LOT of hard work."
more about me...
i believe that the world needs more...
humor!
as a child...
i wanted to be either a filmmaker or playwright.
my definition of success...
is to be interested in what you are doing every single day. That, to me, is what success is.