James Bjorken | |
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| Born | James Daniel Bjorken June 22, 1934 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 6, 2024 (aged 90) Redwood City, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Known for | Bjorken scaling Intrabeam scattering Jet quenching Co-predicting the charm quark |
| Spouse |
Joan Goldthwaite
(m. 1967; died 1983) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Putnam Fellow (1954) Heineman Prize (1972) E. O. Lawrence Award (1977) Pomeranchuk Prize (2000) ICTP Dirac Medal (2004) Wolf Prize in Physics (2015) EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Fermilab, SLAC |
| Thesis | Experimental tests of Quantum electrodynamics and spectral representations of Green's functions in perturbation theory (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Drell |
| Doctoral students | John Kogut Davison Soper Helen Quinn |
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (June 22, 1934 – August 6, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954,[1] received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962.[2] He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).
Bjorken was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2004; and, in 2015, the Wolf Prize in Physics and the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.[3]
- ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ^ "High Energy Particle Physics Board". Archived from the original on August 18, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2016.