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 B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his Ph.D. 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. Web site: 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics . 2024-09-20 . www.aps.org . en.
  9. News: Achenbach . Joel . 2023-05-17 . Nobel committee's 'Rule of Three' means some Higgs boson scientists were left out . 2024-09-20 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  10. News: Higgs's bosuns . 2024-09-20 . The Economist . 0013-0613.
  11. News: Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes? . 2024-09-20 . The Economist . 0013-0613.
  12. News: House of dreams . 2024-09-20 . The Economist . 0013-0613.
  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. Web site: April 28 . Stacey 401-863-3766 . 2014 Media contact: Kevin . Gerald S. GuralnikChancellor's Professor of Physics . 2024-09-20 . news.brown.edu . en.
  19. Web site: After death, physics prof. remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work . 2024-09-20 . The Brown Daily Herald . en-US.
  20. Hagen . Carl R. . 2014-08-01 . Gerald Stanford Guralnik . Physics Today . en . 67 . 8 . 57–58 . 10.1063/PT.3.2488 . 0031-9228.

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