Juliet Lee-Franzini

This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. (November 2017)

This biographical article needs more biographical information on the subject. Statistical information, such as date and place of birth, information on historical significance, and information on accomplishments is desired. Please remove this message when done. See this article's talk page for more information. (November 2017)

Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 – January 19, 2014)^[1] was the founding faculty member of the high energy physics experimental group at the newly established Stony Brook University. She was a successful teacher and many of her students head particle physics research groups all over the world.

Early life and education[]

Juliet Lee-Franzini was born of Chinese parents in Paris, France in 1933^[2] and educated in the United States. She earned her BA at Hunter College in 1953, her MA and PhD from Columbia University in 1957 and 1960.^[3]

Career[]

From 1980 until 1981 she was a visiting professor of Physics at Cornell University. In 1991 Lee-Franzini took the position of VIP physicist at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, until 1996. In 1996 she became the Director of Research at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN.^[3]

Professional board memberships[]

Lee-Franzini served on the Board of Directors of The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, from 1986 until 1991. She was on the executive committee of the Division of Particles and Fields at the American Physical Society from 1987 until 1989. From 1989 until 1991 she was on the nominating committee of the American Physical Society as well as serving on the nominating committee of the Division of Particles and Fields.^[3]

Research[]

Lee-Franzini conducted her research at many laboratories over her lifetime, often with her husband, Paolo Franzini. Her experiments in particle physics were conducted at Nevis Labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Penn-Princeton Accelerator, Fermilab, Cornell, and Frascati.

Her early experiments at Columbia investigated the quantities of muon decay spectra and also revealed accurate confirmation of the V-A nature of the weak interactive force.^[1] She also studied the spectroscopy of bound state mesons, quark heavy flavor potentials, and the KLOE experiments at Frascati.^[2]

Honors[]

Juliet Lee-Franzini was a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Personal life[]

In 1964 Juliet married fellow physicist Paolo Franzini,^[2] and together have a daughter named Paula.^[3]

References[]