Jun John Sakurai | |
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桜井 純 | |
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| Born | January 31, 1933 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | November 1, 1982 (aged 49) Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Alma mater | Bronx High School of Science Harvard University Cornell University |
| Known for | Sakurai and Napolitano |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of California, Los Angeles California Institute of Technology Universities of Tokyo and Nagoya University of Paris at Orsay Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa Stanford Linear Accelerator CERN at Geneva Max Planck Institute at Munich |
| Thesis | A theory of weak interactions (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe |
Jun John Sakurai (桜井 純, Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese–American particle physicist and theorist.
While a graduate student at Cornell University, Sakurai independently discovered the V-A theory of weak interactions.[1]
He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985, published posthumously) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967).
- ^ Nambu, Yoichiro (February 1983). "Obituary: Jun John Sakurai". Physics Today. 36 (2): 87. Bibcode:1983PhT....36b..87N. doi:10.1063/1.2915507.