J. J. Sakurai

Jun John Sakurai
Born	January 31, 1933(1933-01-31) Tokyo
Died	November 1, 1982(1982-11-01) (aged 49) Geneva
Nationality	Japan, United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Chicago University of California, Los Angeles California Institute of Technology Universities of Tokyo and Nagoya University of Paris at Orsay Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa Stanford Linear Accelerator CERN at Geneva Max Planck Institute at Munich
Alma mater	Bronx High School of Science Harvard University Cornell University

Jun John Sakurai (桜井 純, Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist. He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985-posthumous) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967).

See also

• Sakurai Prize

External links

• University of California: In Memoriam, 1985