Jun John Sakurai | |
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Born | January 31, 1933 Tokyo |
Died | November 1, 1982 Geneva |
(aged 49)
Nationality | Japan, United States |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions |
University of Chicago University of Paris at Orsay Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa Stanford Linear Accelerator CERN at Geneva Max Planck Institute at Munich |
Alma mater | Bronx High School of Science Harvard University Cornell University |
Jun John Sakurai (桜井 純 Sakurai Jun , January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist. He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985-posthumous) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967).