Carol Elizabeth Tanner is a retired American physicist whose research involved high-precision measurements of the hyperfine structure of ultracold cesium atoms in order to study parity non-conservation.
She continued her studies in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a master's degree in 1982 and completed her Ph.D. in 1985.
[3] Her doctoral work with Eugene D. Commins resulted in the dissertation Measurement of Stark Amplitudes in the
[4] After postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, she became an assistant professor at Notre Dame in 1990.
[5] Tanner was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants, "for her contributions to the understanding of atomic structure through precision measurements of atomic lifetimes and transition amplitudes".