Gerald Guralnik

Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Stanford Guralnik
Born	(1936-09-17)September 17, 1936 Cedar Falls, Iowa
Died	Providence, Rhode Island
Nationality	American
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Brown University University of Rochester Imperial College London Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alma mater	MIT (BS) Harvard University, PhD
Doctoral advisor	Walter Gilbert
Known for	Quantum field theory Broken symmetry Higgs Boson Higgs mechanism Computational physics
Notable awards	Sakurai Prize (2010) APS fellow Sloan fellow

Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (/ɡʊˈrælnɪk/; 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 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 aged 77 in 2014.

See also

• 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
• Higgs mechanism
• Higgs boson

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". SPG MITTEILUNGEN March 2013, No. 39, p. 14