A Woman Who's Rockin' the Universe!

 

Picure of Helen R. Quinn

A brief bio on Helen Quinn

 

    She seems very ordinary.  She grew up in Australia.  She has 2 children, likes taking care of her plants and she enjoys running and hiking.  Although we recognize that women are overall incredible.... this one breaks the mold!  She is Dr. Helen Quinn.  This former Harvard professor holds the 2000 Dirac Medal, which is a prestigious award given to those who significantly contribute to the field of theoretical physics.  Not to mention, she also is associated with the Fellow American Physical Society, The Fellow Alfred Sloan Foundation, and the Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
    Mrs. Quinn received bachelor, master and Doctoral degrees from Stanford University.  Currently she works with elementary and high school teachers in California to make physics fun and exciting for students.
Helen Quinn published the first paper discussing how the strong, weak and electromagnetic coupling constants can merge to a single coupling constant in a grand unified theory.  This theory is named the "Georgi-Quinn-Weinberg constant" after Howard Georgi, Helen Quinn and Steven Weinberg.  (The brilliant minds that thought about these interactions for a LONG time!!)  Helen Quinn was awarded the Dirac Medal for her work with Howard Georgi and Jogesh Pati on quarks and leptons. She also is associated with the theories of universal symmetry.  (In other words,  symmetry of the universe.)  Her publications include....

  • "Divergence Cancellations in a Simplified Weak Interaction Model," Physics Letters 39B: 229 (1972), with T. Appelquist.
  • "Hierarchy of Interactions in Unified Gauge Theories," Physical Review Letters 33: 451 (1974), with H. Georgi and S. Weinberg.
  • "Smearing Method in the Quark Model," Physical Review D13: 1958 (1976), with E. C. Poggio and S. Weinberg.
  • "CP Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles," Physical Review Letters 38: 1440 (1977), with R. D. Peccei.
  • "Constraints Imposed by CP Conservation in the Presence of a Pseudoparticle," Physical Review D16: 1791 (1977), with R. D. Peccei.
  • "CP Violation in B Physics," Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 42: 211 (1992), with Y. Nir.

    • For more information about Helen Quinn and other amazing women in science go to....

    http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
     

    I hope that everyone knows that......

     

    Liz Kramer