Nationality American Doctoral advisor Walter Gilbert | Fields Physics Name Gerald Guralnik | |
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Born September 17, 1936
Cedar Falls, Iowa ( 1936-09-17 ) Institutions Brown University
University of Rochester
Imperial College London
Los Alamos National Laboratory Alma mater MIT (BS)
Harvard University, PhD Known for Quantum field theory
Broken symmetry
Higgs Boson
Higgs mechanism
Computational physics Notable awards Sakurai Prize (2010)
APS fellow
Sloan fellow Died April 26, 2014, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Education Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Similar People Walter Gilbert, Kyriakos Tamvakis, Frederick Sanger, Roger Wolcott Sperry | ||
Notable students Kyriakos Tamvakis | ||
Gerald guralnik talking at brown university
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). As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. 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".
Guralnik received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1964. 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 Gerry 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. He died of a heart attack at aged 77 in 2014.