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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. Archived from
the original (PDF) on December 26, 2011. 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. Archived from
the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
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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. Archived from
the original on February 28, 2010. 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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