J. J. Sakurai

Jun John Sakurai
桜井 純
Born(1933-01-31)January 31, 1933
Tokyo, Japan
DiedNovember 1, 1982(1982-11-01) (aged 49)
Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality
  • Japan
  • United States
Alma materBronx High School of Science
Harvard University
Cornell University
Known forSakurai and Napolitano
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity 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
ThesisA theory of weak interactions (1958)
Doctoral advisorHans 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).

  1. ^ Nambu, Yoichiro (February 1983). "Obituary: Jun John Sakurai". Physics Today. 36 (2): 87. Bibcode:1983PhT....36b..87N. doi:10.1063/1.2915507.