Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio | |
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Particle Physics Statistical mechanics | |
| Institutions | Sapienza University of Rome[1] University of Padua |
| Doctoral students | Sergio Doplicher |
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (born 1932), sometimes called Gianni Jona, is an Italian
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model is named after him. When Yoichiro Nambu received the Nobel Prize, Jona-Lasinio gave the Nobel Lecture in his place, as a recognition from Nambu for their joint work.[2] At present, he holds a faculty position in the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome, and is a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei
.
Life
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio was born in
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1983–84). In 2004, the Journal of Statistical Physics
, a scientific magazine about statistical mechanics, dedicated a special issue in honour of Giovanni Jona-Lasinio.
Nobel Prize controversy
Half of the 2008
subatomic physics.[3] The fundamental step in this field is the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model (NJL model), developed together with Jona-Lasinio, who was left out of the prize. In recognition of his colleague's work, Nambu asked Jona-Lasinio to hold the Nobel Lecture at Stockholm University in his place.[4]
The other half of the 2008 prize for physics was awarded to
CKM matrix, after Nicola Cabibbo, Kobayashi, and Maskawa. Like Jona-Lasinio, Cabibbo arguably would have deserved a share of the award.[5]
As the Nobel Prize is awarded each year to at most three people for no more than two different research works, in 2008 the committee was forced to skip one member each from both the CKM and the NJL workgroups (incidentally, both of them Italian).
Awards
- 2006: Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei.
- 2012: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society.
- 2013: statistical physics, notably phase transitionsand the breaking of a continuous symmetry.
See also
- A biography in Italian
- The April 2004 issue (Volume 115, Numbers 1-2) of Journal of Statistical Physics in honor of Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
- A picture of Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
- Effective action
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson
- Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Giovanni Jona-Lasinio.
- ^ "2012 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ "The official website of the Nobel Prize".
- The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ "Yoichiro Nambu – Nobel Lecture: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics: a Case of Cross Fertilization". Nobelprize.org. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ Physics Nobel snubs key researcher – physics-math – 7 October 2008. New Scientist. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
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