
Physics Department Faculty:
Melissa Franklin
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Director of Graduate StudiesPhD 1982, Stanford University
Melissa Franklin 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. With her
graduate students and postdoctoral staff, she is presently
building a large cylindrical drift chamber to measure
the momentum of the outcoming particles. She is also
upgrading one of the central muon detectors.









