| Bruno Zumino | |
| Birth Date: | 28 April 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Death Place: | Berkeley, California |
| Fields: | Theoretical physics |
| Workplaces: | Berkeley CERN New York University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Rome |
| Known For: | Wess-Zumino model Wess–Zumino–Witten model Wess–Zumino consistency condition Coleman–Wess–Zumino construction for nonlinear symmetries Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity |
| Awards: | Dirac Medal (1987) Heineman Prize (1988) Max Planck Medal (1989) Wigner Medal (1992) Humboldt Prize (1992) Enrico Fermi Prize (2005) |
Bruno Zumino (28 April 1923 − 21 June 2014)[1] was an Italian theoretical physicist and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his DSc degree from the University of Rome in 1945.[2]
He was renowned for his rigorous proof of the CPT theorem with Gerhart Lüders;[3] his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians;[4] the discoveries, with Julius Wess, of the Wess–Zumino model,[5] the first four-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory with Bose–Fermi degeneracy, and initiator of the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions; a concise formulation of supergravity;[6] and for his deciphering of structured flavour-chiral anomalies, codified in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model of conformal field theory.[7]