Gerald Guralnik

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Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Stanford Guralnik
Born(1936-09-17)September 17, 1936
Cedar Falls, Iowa
DiedApril 26, 2014(2014-04-26) (aged 77)
Providence, Rhode Island
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Computational physics
Quantum field theory
Institutions
Doctoral advisorWalter 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]

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References

  1. ^ Paxson, Christina H. (April 28, 2014). "Remembering Professor Gerald Guralnik". Brown University. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Guralnik, G.; Hagen, C.; Kibble, T. (1964). "Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles".
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585
    .
  3. ^ Guralnik, G. S. (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles".
    S2CID 16298371
    .
  4. ^ Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2011). "The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics".
    arXiv:1110.2253 [physics.hist-ph
    ].
  5. ^ Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2001). "A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles" (PDF). Brown University. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  6. ^ Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968). "Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem" (PDF). In
    ISBN 0470170573
    .
  7. ^ "4 July 2012: A Day to Remember,” CERN Courier, 23 August 2012
  8. ^ "Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers". Physical Review Letters. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  9. ^ APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History(October 8, 2013)
  10. ^ "Nobel committee’s 'Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (October 8, 2013)
  11. ^ "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs’s bosuns." Economist (October 12, 2013)
  12. ^ "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist (October 9, 2013)
  13. ^ "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist (March 3, 2012)
  14. S2CID 119257339
    .
  15. ^ "Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies". The New York Times. May 3, 2014.
  16. ^ "Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83". The New York Times. July 19, 2016.
  17. ^ "2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik". American Physical Society. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  18. ^ Luttrell, S. K. (March–April 2010). "Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63".
    Technology Review
    . Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  19. ^ Brown University Passages - Gerald S. Guralnik, Chancellor’s Professor of Physics
  20. Brown Daily Herald
    . May 1, 2014.
  21. ^ Physics Today - Gerald Stanford Guralnik

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