Susumu Ōkubo
Susumu Ōkubo ( Japanese 大 久保 進 , Ōkubo Susumu ; * 1930 in Japan ; † July 17, 2015 ) was a Japanese theoretical physicist.
Ōkubo studied from 1949 at the University of Tokyo (Bachelor 1952) and from 1954 at the University of Rochester , where he received his doctorate in 1958 under Robert Marshak . He was then a postdoc at the University of Naples in 1959/60 , at CERN in 1960/1 , then briefly in Japan (since he had problems getting a US visa) and from 1962 back at Rochester University, where he became a professor in 1964 . In 1996 he retired.
Ōkubo is mainly concerned with elementary particle physics. He is known for the Gell-Mann-Okubo mass formula for mesons and baryons in the quark model, which relates the masses of the members of SU (3) multiples to one another.
In 2005 he received the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society , the Nishina Prize in Japan in 1976 and the Wigner Medal in 2006 . In 1966 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1969 a Ford Fellow. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Introduction to Octonion and other associative algebras in physics . Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Web links
- Biography at Rochester University
- Sakurai Prize for Okubo
- Okubo to discover his mass formula (PDF file, 92 kB)
- “Renowned particle physicist Susumu Okubo dies.” Obituary from the University of Rochester
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susumu Okubo: Citation Classic - Note On Unitary Symmetry In Strong-interations . September 8, 1980 ( upenn.edu [PDF; accessed August 2, 2019]).
- ↑ Ōkubo: Note on unitary symmetry in strong interactions . in: Progress in theoretical physics Vol. 27, 1962, p. 949, Vol. 28, 1962, p. 24.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ōkubo, Susumu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 大 久保 進 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 2015 |