Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Guralnik · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-developed the Higgs mechanism
1936, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA — 2014, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
United States
Gerald Guralnik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-developed the Higgs mechanism
Guralnik was a theoretical physicist who in 1964, with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble, co-developed the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking that gives elementary particles their mass — the theory later confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs boson. He spent most of his career at Brown University. He came from a Jewish family.
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Physicist; co-developed the Higgs mechanism
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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