| Gerald Guralnik | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 17, 1936 Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Brown University University of Rochester Imperial College London Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Alma mater | MIT, BS Harvard University, PhD |
| Doctoral advisor | Walter Gilbert |
| Known for | Quantum field theory, Broken symmetry, Higgs Boson, Higgs mechanism, Computational physics |
| Notable awards | Sakurai Prize (2010) APS fellow Sloan fellow |
Gerald Stanford Guralnik is the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. He is most famous for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs Boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble.[1][2][3][4] As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[5]
In 2010, Guralnik was awarded The American Physical Society's J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the "elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses".[6][7]
Guralnik received his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1964.[8] He went to Imperial College London as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the National Science Foundation and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. In the fall of 1967 went to Brown University and frequently visited Imperial College and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a staff member from 1985 to 1987. While at Los Alamos, he did extensive work on the development and application of computational methods for Lattice QCD.
His primary interests are currently in quantum field theory and general relativity. He is particularly interested in the phase structure and the full solution set of quantum field theory analyzed both abstractly and through numerical techniques. He was a Sloan fellow and is a fellow of the APS.