Bruno Zumino

Bruno Zumino (April 28, 1923, Rome, Italy) is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his bachelor degree from the University of Rome in 1945. He is famous for the discoveries of the Wess–Zumino model, widely viewed as the first supersymmetric quantum field theory outside the Soviet Union, and of the Wess–Zumino–Witten model in conformal field theory.

Awards

• 1987 Dirac Prize
• 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
• 1989 Max Planck medal
• 1992 Wigner medal
• 1992 Humboldt Research Award
• 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
• 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society

External links

• His faculty page at Berkeley
• His research page at Berkeley
• Biography at APS