Gerald Guralnik

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American physicist human physicist theoretical physicist

Gerald Guralnik was an American theoretical physicist best known as one of the co-discoverers of the Higgs mechanism that explains how particles acquire mass.

Aliases (1)

C. R. Hagen ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American physicist → human → physicist → theoretical physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics → European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize → Sakurai Prize →
coAuthor	Carl Hagen → Richard Hagen → Tom Kibble →
coAuthorOf	Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble 1964 paper on broken symmetry and mass of gauge bosons →
coDiscovererOf	Higgs mechanism →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1936-09-17 →
dateOfDeath	2014-04-26 →
doctoralAdvisor	V. F. Weisskopf → Walter Gilbert →
educatedAt	Brown University → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	Brown University →
ethnicGroup	Jewish Americans →
fieldOfWork	particle physics → quantum field theory → theoretical physics →
hasAcademicDiscipline	high-energy physics →
hasFamilyName	Guralnik →
hasGivenName	Gerald →
hasResearchInterest	gauge theories → mass generation of gauge bosons → spontaneous symmetry breaking →
knownFor	Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble paper on broken symmetries → Higgs mechanism → spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Physical Society →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableStudent	Carl Hagen →
notableWork	“Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons” → “Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles” →
occupation	researcher → university teacher →
placeOfBirth	Cedar Falls, Iowa →
placeOfDeath	Providence, Rhode Island →
residence	Providence, Rhode Island →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Brown University →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
François Englert → Tom Kibble →	coAuthor
Carl Hagen → Carl Hagen ("C. R. Hagen") →	coAuthorWith
Higgs field →	isPredictedBy
Higgs boson →	predictedBy
Higgs mechanism →	proposedBy