Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (/ɡʊˈrælnɪk/; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor ofPhysics atBrown University. In 1964, he co-discovered theHiggs mechanism andHiggs boson withC. R. Hagen andTom Kibble (GHK).[2][3][4][5][6][7] As part ofPhysical 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 theearly papers on the Higgs theory, GHK werecontroversially not included in the 2013Nobel Prize in Physics.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
In 2010, Guralnik was awarded theAmerican Physical Society'sJ. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the "elucidation of the properties ofspontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativisticgauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation ofvector boson masses".[17]
Guralnik received his B.S. degree from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his Ph.D. degree fromHarvard University in 1964.[18] He went toImperial College London as a postdoctoral fellow supported by theNational Science Foundation and then became a postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Rochester. In the fall of 1967 Guralnik went toBrown University and frequently visitedImperial College andLos Alamos National Laboratory where he was a staff member from 1985 to 1987. While atLos Alamos, he did extensive work on the development and application of computational methods forlattice QCD.
Guralnik died of a heart attack at age 77 in 2014.[19][20][21]
- ^Paxson, Christina H. (April 28, 2014)."Remembering Professor Gerald Guralnik".Brown University. RetrievedDecember 28, 2015.
- ^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.
- ^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.
- ^Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2011). "The Beginnings of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics".arXiv:1110.2253 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^Guralnik, G. S. (Fall 2001)."A Physics History of My part in the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge particles"(PDF).Brown University. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on December 26, 2011. RetrievedMarch 22, 2012.
- ^Guralnik, G. S.; Hagen, C. R.; Kibble, T. W. B. (1968)."Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem"(PDF). InCool, R. L.; Marshak, R. E. (eds.).Advances in Particle Physics. Vol. 2.Interscience Publishers. pp. 567–708.ISBN 0470170573. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on September 24, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 16, 2014.
- ^"4 July 2012: A Day to Remember,” CERN Courier, 23 August 2012
- ^"Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers".Physical Review Letters. Archived fromthe original on January 10, 2010. RetrievedMarch 22, 2012.
- ^"2013 Nobel Prize in Physics".www.aps.org. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^Achenbach, Joel (May 17, 2023)."Nobel committee's 'Rule of Three' means some Higgs boson scientists were left out".Washington Post.ISSN 0190-8286. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^"Higgs's bosuns".The Economist.ISSN 0013-0613. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^"Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?".The Economist.ISSN 0013-0613. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^"House of dreams".The Economist.ISSN 0013-0613. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^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.
- ^"Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies".The New York Times. May 3, 2014.
- ^"Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83".The New York Times. July 19, 2016.
- ^"2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Gerald S. Guralnik".American Physical Society. RetrievedMarch 22, 2012.
- ^Luttrell, S. K. (March–April 2010)."Gerald Guralnik '58 and Carl Richard Hagen '58, SM '58, PhD '63".Technology Review. Archived fromthe original on February 28, 2010. RetrievedMarch 22, 2012.
- ^April 28; Stacey 401-863-3766, 2014 Media contact: Kevin."Gerald S. GuralnikChancellor's Professor of Physics".news.brown.edu. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^"After death, physics prof. remembered for mentorship, imagination and contributions to Nobel-winning work".The Brown Daily Herald. RetrievedSeptember 20, 2024.
- ^Hagen, Carl R. (August 1, 2014)."Gerald Stanford Guralnik".Physics Today.67 (8):57–58.doi:10.1063/PT.3.2488.ISSN 0031-9228.
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