James Bjorken ( born James Bjorken ; born June 22, 1934 , Chicago , USA ) is an American scientist, a specialist in the field of theoretical physics.
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Chicago , USA |
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| Scientific field | physicist |
| Place of work | National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC Fermilab |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University |
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| Academic rank | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (1959) |
| Famous students | Helen Quinn |
| Awards and prizes |  Wolf Prize in Physics (2015) |
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Biography
He received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation at Stanford University in 1959. His studies of hadrons contributed to the classification of quarks as elementary particles and the development of the theory of quantum chromodynamics .
He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences [2] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2006) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [3] .
Awards, Prizes
The awards include: Danny Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics (1972) [4] , Ernest Lawrence Prize (1977), I. Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize (2000), Dirac Medal (2004), Wolf Prize (2015), Prize in particle physics and high energy physics (2015), Robert Wilson Prize (2017).
Bibliography
- Björken J. D., Drell S. D. Relativistic quantum theory [In 2 volumes]. - M., Science, 1978
- Volume 1. Relativistic quantum mechanics [= JD Bjorken, S. Drell (1964). Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ].
- Volume 2. Relativistic quantum fields [= JD Bjorken, S. Drell (1965). Relativistic Quantum Fields ].
Notes
Literature
- Temples Yu. A. Bjorken, James // Physicists: Biographical Reference / Ed. A.I. Akhiezer . - Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. - M .: Nauka , 1983 .-- S. 50 .-- 400 p. - 200,000 copies. (in per.)
Links
- Bjorken, James on the official website of the RAS
- Bjorken scaling / Wu-Ki Tung (2009), Scholarpedia, 4 (3): 7412