Roberto Peccei

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
Thesis The chiral dynamic method and its applications in high energy physics  (1969)
Doctoral advisorKenneth Alan Johnson
Doctoral studentsMarcela Carena

Roberto Daniele Peccei (Italian: [petˈtʃɛi]; January 6, 1942[1] – June 1, 2020)[2][3] was a theoretical particle physicist whose principal interests lay in the area of 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.

  1. ^ American men & women of science: a ... - Google Books. R.R. Bowker. 2008-02-14. ISBN 9781414433059. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  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.
  4. ^ Peccei, R. D.; Quinn, Helen R. (1977). "CP Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles". Physical Review Letters. 38 (25): 1440–1443. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..38.1440P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.1440. ISSN 0031-9007.
  5. ^ Peccei, R. D.; Quinn, Helen R. (1977). "Constraints imposed by CP conservation in the presence of pseudoparticles". Physical Review D. 16 (6): 1791–1797. Bibcode:1977PhRvD..16.1791P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.16.1791. ISSN 0556-2821.