Bruno Zumino

Bruno Zumino
Born 28 April 1923
Rome, Italy
Died 21 June 2014 (aged 91)
Berkeley, California
Residence United States
Fields Theoretical physics
Institutions Berkeley
CERN
New York University
Alma mater University of Rome
Known for Wess-Zumino model for supersymmetry

Bruno Zumino (April 28, 1923 − June 21, 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist and emeritus faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his DSc degree from the University of Rome in 1945.[1]

He was renowned for his rigorous proof of the CPT theorem with Gerhart Lüders;[2] his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians;[3] the discoveries, with Julius Wess, of the Wess–Zumino model,[4] widely viewed as the first four-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory outside the Soviet Union, and initiator of the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions; and for his deciphering of structured flavor-chiral anomalies, codified in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model of conformal field theory.[5]

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References

  1. Sanders, Robert. "Bruno Zumino, an architect of supersymmetry, dies at 91". Newscenter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  2. Lüders, G.; Zumino, B. (1958). "Connection between Spin and Statistics". Physical Review 110 (6): 1450. Bibcode:1958PhRv..110.1450L. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.110.1450.
  3. Coleman, S.; Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1969). "Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. I". Physical Review 177 (5): 2239. Bibcode:1969PhRv..177.2239C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2239.; Callan, C.; Coleman, S.; Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1969). "Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. II". Physical Review 177 (5): 2247. Bibcode:1969PhRv..177.2247C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2247.
  4. Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1974). "Supergauge transformations in four dimensions". Nuclear Physics B 70: 39. Bibcode:1974NuPhB..70...39W. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(74)90355-1.
  5. Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1971). "Consequences of anomalous ward identities". Physics Letters B 37: 95. Bibcode:1971PhLB...37...95W. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(71)90582-X.

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