James Bjorken

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James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1959. He is an emeritus professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He discovered the Bjorken scaling phenomenon in deep inelastic scattering of hadrons, a phenomenon critical in proving the existence of quarks and the theory of quantum chromodynamics. Many believe he should have been awarded a Nobel Prize for this discovery.^{[citation needed]} He co-authored, with Sidney Drell, a classic textbook on quantum electrodynamics.

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• Bjorken, James and Drell, Sidney. "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", McGraw-Hill (1964). ISBN 0-07-005493-2
• Bjorken, James and Drell, Sidney. "Relativistic Quantum Fields", McGraw-Hill (1965). ISBN 0-07-005494-0