Jun John Sakurai
Jun John Sakurai , often quoted as JJ Sakurai, ( 桜 井 純 Sakurai Jun , born January 31, 1933 in Tokyo , † November 1, 1982 in Geneva ) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who mainly dealt with elementary particle physics.
Live and act
Sakurai came to the USA in 1949, where he studied at Harvard University with Julian Seymour Schwinger , graduated summa cum laude in 1955 , and received his doctorate in 1958 from Cornell University under Hans Bethe . From 1959 to 1970 he taught at the University of Chicago (from 1964 as full professor), then at the University of California at Los Angeles . He died in 1982 as a visiting professor at CERN .
His field of work was elementary particle physics. As a student at Cornell in 1958, he was supposed to develop the VA theory of the weak interaction independently of Richard Feynman , Murray Gell-Mann and others. a. have postulated. His textbooks on quantum mechanics are particularly popular in the United States.
The American Physical Society annually awards the Sakurai Prize, named after him, for exceptional achievements in the theory of elementary particles (it is considered the highest prize in this area). It was donated by Sakurai's family in 1984.
He was from 1962 to 1966 Sloan Research Fellow , 1964-1982 Fellow of the American Physical Society , 1975-1976 Guggenheim Fellow and 1981-1982 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .
Works
- Modern Quantum Mechanics . Benjamin-Cummings 1985, Reading, Addison-Wesley 2003
- Advanced Quantum Mechanics . Addison-Wesley 1967, 2nd edition 1973
- Currents and mesons . University of Chicago Press 1969
- Invariance principles and elementary particles . Princeton 1964, 1969
literature
- John Cornwall, Julian Schwinger, Robert Finkelstein: Jun John Sakurai, Physics. Los Angeles . In: David Krogh (Ed.): University of California. In Memoriam, 1985 . Pp. 355-356
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sakurai, Jun John - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ↑ JJ Sakurai: Mass Reversal And Weak Interactions. In: Nuovo Cimento . Volume 7, 1958, pp. 649-660
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sakurai, Jun John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sakurai, JJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1982 |
| Place of death | Geneva |