Gerald Guralnik Explained

Gerald Guralnik
Birth Date:17 September 1936
Nationality:American

Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK).[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[7] While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

In 2010, Guralnik was awarded the American Physical Society's J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the "elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses".[16]

Guralnik received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1964.[17] He went to Imperial College London as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the National Science Foundation and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. In the fall of 1967 Guralnik went to Brown University and frequently visited Imperial College and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a staff member from 1985 to 1987. While at Los Alamos, he did extensive work on the development and application of computational methods for lattice QCD.

Guralnik died of a heart attack at age 77 in 2014.[18] [19] [20]

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  1. Guralnik . G. . Hagen . C. . Kibble . T. . 1964 . Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles . . 13 . 20 . 585 . 1964PhRvL..13..585G . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585. free .
  2. Guralnik . G. S. . 2009 . The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles . . 24 . 14 . 2601–2627 . 0907.3466 . 2009IJMPA..24.2601G . 10.1142/S0217751X09045431. 16298371 .
  3. Guralnik . G. S. . Fall 2011 . 1110.2253 . The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics . physics.hist-ph .
  4. Web site: Guralnik . G. S. . Fall 2001 . A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles . . March 22, 2012 . December 26, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111226031431/http://chep.het.brown.edu/stlouis-v4.pdf . dead .
  5. Book: Guralnik . G. S. . Hagen . C. R. . Kibble . T. W. B. . Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem . http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf . Cool . R. L. . Rodney L. Cool . Marshak . R. E. . 1968 . Advances in Particle Physics . . 2 . 567–708 . 0470170573 . September 16, 2014 . September 24, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924072804/http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf . dead .
  6. http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/50565 "4 July 2012: A Day to Remember,” CERN Courier, 23 August 2012
  7. Web site: Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers . . March 22, 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20100110134128/http://prl.aps.org/50years/milestones . January 10, 2010 . mdy .
  8. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/nobel13.cfm APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History(October 8, 2013)
  9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/peter-higgs-francois-englert-win-nobel-prize-in-physics/2013/10/08/1d96aa72-2f98-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html "Nobel committee’s 'Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (October 8, 2013)
  10. http://www.economist.com/node/21587771 "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs’s bosuns." Economist (October 12, 2013)
  11. https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/economist-explains-8 "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist (October 9, 2013)
  12. http://www.economist.com/node/21548911 "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist (March 3, 2012)
  13. 1401.6924. 2014MPLA...2950046G. Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?. Modern Physics Letters A. 29. 9. 1450046. Guralnik. G. S. Hagen. C. R. 2014. 10.1142/S0217732314500461. 119257339.
  14. Web site: May 3, 2014 . Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies . The New York Times.
  15. Web site: July 19, 2016 . Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83 . The New York Times.
  16. Web site: 2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik . . March 22, 2012.
  17. Web site: Luttrell . S. K. . March–April 2010 . Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63 . . March 22, 2012 . February 28, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100228222713/http://www.technologyreview.com/article/24610/ . dead .
  18. https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/04/guralnik Brown University Passages - Gerald S. Guralnik, Chancellor’s Professor of Physics
  19. Web site: May 1, 2014 . After death, physics prof remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work . Brown Daily Herald.
  20. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.2488 Physics Today - Gerald Stanford Guralnik

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