https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110124525209926619 mcnees@mastodon.social - Particle physicist Mary Katharine Gaillard was born #OTD in 1939. She and Benjamin Lee predicted the mass of the charm quark in 1974, and she was the first tenured woman on the physics faculty at UC Berkeley.

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