12 Facts About Helen Quinn

Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn was born on 19 May 1943 and is an Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields.

Helen Quinn began college at the University of Melbourne before moving to the United States and transferring to Stanford University.

Helen Quinn did her postdoctoral work at the DESY in Hamburg, Germany.

Helen Quinn next spent seven years at Harvard University before returning to Stanford, where she became a professor of physics in the Theory Group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, then known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Helen Quinn retired in 2010 and devoted her efforts to education, especially K-12 and preschool science and multilingual education.

Helen Quinn showed how the physics of quarks can be used to predict certain aspects of the physics of hadrons regardless of the details of the hadron's structure.

Helen Quinn has given public talks in various countries on "The Missing Antimatter", in which she suggests that this area of research is promising.

Helen Quinn was the fourth woman to be elected to the APS presidential line in the Society's 102-year history.

Helen Quinn has had a long term engagement in education issues.

Helen Quinn was a cofounder and the first president of the Contemporary Physics Education Project, and helped design its first product, the chart of Fundamental Particles and Interactions that appears on many schoolhouse walls next to the periodic table chart.

Helen Quinn was elected to the National Academy of Sciences while she was a staff member at SLAC; she was made a full professor of physics at Stanford.

Helen Quinn planned and led the work of the NRC study committee that produced A Framework for K-12 Science Education to guide the development of multi-state standards for science education.