Gerald Guralnik
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| Born | September 17, 1936 Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Brown University University of Rochester Imperial College London Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Alma mater | MIT, BS Harvard University, PhD |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Gilbert |
| Known for | Quantum field theory, Broken symmetry, Higgs Boson, Higgs mechanism, Computational physics |
| Notable awards | Sakurai Prize (2010) APS fellow Sloan fellow |
Gerald Stanford Guralnik (born 17 September 1936) is the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. He is most famous for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble.[1][2][3][4] As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[5]
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".[6]
Guralnik received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1964.[7] 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 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.
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- ^ Guralnik, G.; Hagen, C.; Kibble, T. (1964). "Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles". Physical Review Letters 13 (20): 585. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..585G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585.
- ^ 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. arXiv:0907.3466. Bibcode:2009IJMPA..24.2601G. doi:10.1142/S0217751X09045431.
- ^ Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2001). "A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles". Brown University. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968). "Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem". In Cool, R. L.; Marshak, R. E. Advances in Particle Physics 2. Interscience Publishers. pp. 567–708. ISBN 0470170573.
- ^ "Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers". Physical Review Letters. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ Luttrell, S. K. (March/April 2010). "Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63". Technology Review. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
Further reading [edit]
- Kibble, T. (2009). "Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia 4 (1): 6441. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.6441.
- Kibble, T. (2009). "History of Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia 4 (1): 8741. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.8741.
- Tang, J. (2010). "A Conversation with Professor Gerry Guralnik". Brown University. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
