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.
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 B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his Ph.D. 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 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.
See also
- 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
- Higgs mechanism
- Higgs boson
References
Further reading
- Kibble, T. (2009). "Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia. 4 (1): 6441. Bibcode:2009SchpJ...4.6441K. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.6441.
- Kibble, T. (2009). "History of Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism". Scholarpedia. 4 (1): 8741. Bibcode:2009SchpJ...4.8741K. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.8741.
- Tang, J. (2010). "A Conversation with Professor Gerry Guralnik". Brown University. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
External links
- Papers written by G. Guralnik on Google Scholar
- Papers written by G. Guralnik in the INSPIRE-HEP database
- Gerald Guralnik - 2010 Sakurai Prize Lecture
- Sakurai Prize Videos
- Gerry Guralnik speaks at Brown University about the 1964 PRL papers on YouTube
- Guralnik, Gerald (2013). "Heretical Ideas that Provided the Cornerstone for the Standard Model of Particle Physics". Archived October 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine SPG MITTEILUNGEN March 2013, No. 39, p. 14
