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...Franklin says she first got interested in particle physics as an undergraduate during the summer working at the Forelimb in Chicago, site of one of the largest particle colluders in the country. She has helped put together detectors and measure the results of collisions ever since...
...Franklin came to Harvard as a junior fellow in 1987 and was tenured...
...Franklin and a group of about a hundred other physicists working at Harvard and the Fermilab worked to prove the existence of the last undiscovered quark, the "top" quark, by collecting two years' worth of data from collisions between protons and antiprotons...
...Franklin, who calls herself a completely "experimental physicist, says she enjoys building things and "making them work...
...also has a reputation for being an engaging teacher. "She's very humorous in class and tries to make us feel comfortable," says Forrest N. Anderson '98. For example, to demonstrate Newton's third law, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, Franklin rode a cart fitted with a fire extinguisher to propel herself across the room...