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Helen Quinn is Professor Emerita of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in physics at Stanford in 1967. She has taught physics at both Harvard and Stanford. Quinn is an internationally recognized theoretical physicist who holds the Dirac Medal (from the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy), the Klein Medal (from The Swedish National Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University), the Sakurai Prize (from the American Physical Society), and the Compton Medal (from the American Institute of Physics, awarded once every four years). She is the recipient of the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics. Quinn is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Science, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a fellow and former president of the American Physical Society. Originally from Australia, she is an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. She served as chair of the U.S. National Academy of Science Board on Science Education from 2009 to 2014. She chaired the committee for “A Framework for K-12 Science Education,” which is the basis of the Next Generation Science Standards. In 2015 she was appointed by the President of Ecuador as a member of the initial “Comision Gestora” to help guide the development of the National University of Education of Ecuador.