Gerald Guralnik

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 B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his Ph.D. 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]

  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". Physical Review Letters. 13 (20): 585. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..585G. 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". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 24 (14): 2601–2627. arXiv:0907.3466. Bibcode:2009IJMPA..24.2601G. doi:10.1142/S0217751X09045431. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 26, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  6. ^ Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968). "Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem" (PDF). In Cool, R. L.; Marshak, R. E. (eds.). Advances in Particle Physics. Vol. 2. Interscience Publishers. pp. 567–708. ISBN 0470170573. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  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. ^ "2013 Nobel Prize in Physics". www.aps.org. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  10. ^ Achenbach, Joel (May 17, 2023). "Nobel committee's 'Rule of Three' means some Higgs boson scientists were left out". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  11. ^ "Higgs's bosuns". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  12. ^ "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  13. ^ "House of dreams". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  14. ^ Guralnik, G. S; Hagen, C. R (2014). "Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?". Modern Physics Letters A. 29 (9): 1450046. arXiv:1401.6924. Bibcode:2014MPLA...2950046G. doi:10.1142/S0217732314500461. 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. Archived from the original on February 28, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  19. ^ April 28; Stacey 401-863-3766, 2014 Media contact: Kevin. "Gerald S. GuralnikChancellor's Professor of Physics". news.brown.edu. Retrieved September 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ "After death, physics prof. remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  21. ^ Hagen, Carl R. (August 1, 2014). "Gerald Stanford Guralnik". Physics Today. 67 (8): 57–58. doi:10.1063/PT.3.2488. ISSN 0031-9228.