Biography:Gerald Guralnik
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.jpg) Gerald Stanford Guralnik | |
| Born | Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Died | April 26, 2014 (aged 77) Providence, Rhode Island |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Doctoral advisor | Walter Gilbert |
Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (/ɡʊˈrælnɪk/; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK).[2][3][4][5][6][7] As part of Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[8] While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
In 2010, Guralnik was awarded the American Physical Society's J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the "elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses".[17]
Guralnik received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1964.[18] He went to Imperial College London as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the National Science Foundation and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. In the fall of 1967 Guralnik went to Brown University and frequently visited Imperial College and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a staff member from 1985 to 1987. While at Los Alamos, he did extensive work on the development and application of computational methods for lattice QCD.
Guralnik died of a heart attack at age 77 in 2014.[19][20][21]
See also
References
- ↑ Paxson, Christina H. (April 28, 2014). "Remembering Professor Gerald Guralnik". Brown University. https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/president/guralnik.
- ↑ Guralnik, G.; Hagen, C.; Kibble, T. (1964). "Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles". Physical Review Letters 13 (20): 585. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585. Bibcode: 1964PhRvL..13..585G.
- ↑ Guralnik, G. S. (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles". International Journal of Modern Physics A 24 (14): 2601–2627. doi:10.1142/S0217751X09045431. Bibcode: 2009IJMPA..24.2601G.
- ↑ Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2011). "The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics". arXiv:1110.2253 [physics.hist-ph].
- ↑ Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2001). "A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles". Brown University. http://chep.het.brown.edu/stlouis-v4.pdf.
- ↑ Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968). "Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem". Advances in Particle Physics. 2. Interscience Publishers. pp. 567–708. ISBN 0470170573. http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf.
- ↑ "4 July 2012: A Day to Remember,” CERN Courier, 23 August 2012
- ↑ "Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers". Physical Review Letters. http://prl.aps.org/50years/milestones#1964.
- ↑ APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History(October 8, 2013)
- ↑ "Nobel committee’s 'Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (October 8, 2013)
- ↑ "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs’s bosuns." Economist (October 12, 2013)
- ↑ "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist (October 9, 2013)
- ↑ "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist (March 3, 2012)
- ↑ Guralnik, G. S; Hagen, C. R (2014). "Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?". Modern Physics Letters A 29 (9): 1450046. doi:10.1142/S0217732314500461. Bibcode: 2014MPLA...2950046G.
- ↑ "Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies". May 3, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/us/gerald-guralnik-77-a-god-particle-pioneer-dies.html.
- ↑ "Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83". July 19, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/tom-kibble-physicist-who-helped-discover-the-higgs-mechanism-dies-at-83.html.
- ↑ "2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/units/dpf/awards/recipient.cfm?first_nm=Gerald&last_nm=Guralnik&year=2010.
- ↑ Luttrell, S. K. (March–April 2010). "Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63". Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/article/24610/.
- ↑ Brown University Passages - Gerald S. Guralnik, Chancellor’s Professor of Physics
- ↑ "After death, physics prof remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work". Brown Daily Herald. May 1, 2014. http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/05/01/death-physics-prof-remembered-mentorship-imagination-contributions-nobel-winning-work/.
- ↑ Physics Today - Gerald Stanford Guralnik
Further reading
- Kibble, T. (2009). "Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia 4 (1): 6441. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.6441. Bibcode: 2009SchpJ...4.6441K.
- Kibble, T. (2009). "History of Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia 4 (1): 8741. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.8741. Bibcode: 2009SchpJ...4.8741K.
- Tang, J. (2010). "A Conversation with Professor Gerry Guralnik". Brown University. http://www.physics.brown.edu/GuralnikInterview.asp.
External links
- Papers written by G. Guralnik on Google Scholar
- Papers written by G. Guralnik in the INSPIRE-HEP database
- Gerald Guralnik - 2010 Sakurai Prize Lecture
- Sakurai Prize Videos
- Guralnik, Gerald (2013). "Heretical Ideas that Provided the Cornerstone for the Standard Model of Particle Physics". SPG MITTEILUNGEN March 2013, No. 39, p. 14
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