Bruno Zumino
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Bruno Zumino is an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He got his PhD from the University of Rome in 1945. He is famous for the discovery of Wess-Zumino model in supersymmetric quantum field theories and Wess-Zumino-Witten model in conformal field theories.
[edit] Awards
- 1987 Dirac Prize
- 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 1989 Max Planck medal
- 1992 Wigner medal
- 1992 Humboldt Research Award
- 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
- 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society