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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).
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[7] As part of
Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.
[8] 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.
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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".
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Guralnik received his BS degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from
Harvard University in 1964.
[18] 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.
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See also
References
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^ Paxson, Christina H. (April 28, 2014).
"Remembering Professor Gerald Guralnik".
Brown University. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
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Guralnik, G.; Hagen, C.; Kibble, T. (1964).
"Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles".
Physical Review Letters. 13 (20): 585.
Bibcode:
1964PhRvL..13..585G.
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585.
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Guralnik, G. S. (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles".
International Journal of Modern Physics A. 24 (14): 2601–2627.
arXiv:
0907.3466.
Bibcode:
2009IJMPA..24.2601G.
doi:
10.1142/S0217751X09045431.
S2CID
16298371.
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Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2011). "The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics".
arXiv:
1110.2253 [
physics.hist-ph].
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Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2001).
"A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles" (PDF).
Brown University. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
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Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968).
"Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem" (PDF). In
Cool, R. L.; Marshak, R. E. (eds.). Advances in Particle Physics. Vol. 2.
Interscience Publishers. pp. 567–708.
ISBN
0470170573.
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"4 July 2012: A Day to Remember,” CERN Courier, 23 August 2012
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"Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers".
Physical Review Letters. Archived from
the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
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APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History(October 8, 2013)
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"Nobel committee’s 'Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (October 8, 2013)
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"The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs’s bosuns." Economist (October 12, 2013)
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"Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist (October 9, 2013)
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"House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist (March 3, 2012)
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^ Guralnik, G. S; Hagen, C. R (2014). "Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?". Modern Physics Letters A. 29 (9): 1450046.
arXiv:
1401.6924.
Bibcode:
2014MPLA...2950046G.
doi:
10.1142/S0217732314500461.
S2CID
119257339.
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"Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies".
The New York Times. May 3, 2014.
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"Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83". The New York Times. July 19, 2016.
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"2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik".
American Physical Society. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
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Luttrell, S. K. (March–April 2010).
"Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63".
Technology Review. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
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Brown University Passages - Gerald S. Guralnik, Chancellor’s Professor of Physics
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"After death, physics prof remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work".
Brown Daily Herald. May 1, 2014.
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Physics Today - Gerald Stanford Guralnik
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