Roberto Peccei

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Roberto Peccei
Born
Roberto Daniele Peccei

(1942-01-06)January 6, 1942
Torino, Italy
DiedJune 1, 2020(2020-06-01) (aged 78)
NationalityItalian
Education
Known forPeccei–Quinn theory
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Institutions
ThesisThe chiral dynamic method and its applications in high energy physics (1969)
Doctoral advisorKenneth Alan Johnson
Doctoral studentsMarcela Carena

Roberto Daniele Peccei (Italian:

electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology. He was most known for formulating the Peccei–Quinn theory (with Helen Quinn), which attempts to resolve the strong CP problem in particle physics.[4][5]

Peccei was a vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Los Angeles between 2000 and 2010.

Early life and education

The son of

MIT in 1962, and M.S. from New York University (NYU) in 1964 and a Ph.D. from the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics in 1969.[7]

Career

After a brief period of postdoctoral work at the

UCLA. Soon thereafter, he became chair of the department, a position he held until becoming dean of the division of physical sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences in 1993.[6]

Until his death in June 2020, Peccei was on the editorial board of Nuclear Physics B Supplement, and the Journal of Physics G.[citation needed] He was a member of the Club of Rome, a trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science and president of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei and he was a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom. In the last 15 years, he served on numerous advisory boards both in Europe and in the U.S. He chaired both the scientific advisory board for the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at Cornell University and the visiting committee for the Laboratory of Nuclear Science at MIT. He also was a member of the visiting committee for the Department of Physics at MIT and was the convener of the vice chancellor for Research Council in the University of California.[citation needed]

Honors and awards

Publications

References

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  2. ^ "In memoria di Roberto Peccei". Greenreport: economia ecologica e sviluppo sostenibile (in Italian). 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  3. ^ In Memoriam. Club of Rome. 2020-06-01. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
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  6. ^ a b c "In memoriam: Roberto Peccei, 78, internationally renowned particle physicist". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  7. ^ Robert D. Peccei at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  10. ^ "Roberto Peccei". APS.org. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  11. ^ "2013 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-06-03.