Richard Slansky
Richard C. Slansky ( 1940 - January 16, 1998 ) was an American theoretical physicist.
Slansky studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley . He was a post-doc at Caltech and then for five years at Yale University before joining the newly founded theory group for elementary particle physics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Peter Carruthers in 1974 . In 1989 he became head of the theory department there. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Irvine . He died of a brain aneurysm .
Slansky looked at GUTs . His article “Group theory for unified model building” (Physics Reports Vol. 79, 1981, pp. 1–128) was well known and widely used among GUT theorists. In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute .
He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Web links
- Obituary at CERN (PDF file; 34 kB) (English)
- Lecture by Slansky From simple field theory to the standard model 1984, Los Alamos Science
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| SURNAME | Slansky, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slansky, Richard C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1998 |