J. J. Sakurai

Jun John Sakurai, J. J. often Sakurai quotes ( Sakurai桜 井 纯Jun, born January 31, 1933, Tokyo, † 1982 in Geneva ) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who mainly focused on elementary particle physics.

Life and work

Sakurai came in 1949 in the United States where he studied at Harvard University with Julian Seymour Schwinger, 1955 summa cum laude graduate, and in 1958 received his doctorate from Cornell University with Hans Bethe. 1959 to 1970 he taught at the University of Chicago (from 1964 as full professor ), then at the University of California at Los Angeles. He died in 1982 as a visiting professor at CERN.

His field was the physics. He is still a student at Cornell in 1958, the VA theory of weak interactions independent of Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, among others have postulated. His textbooks on quantum mechanics are particularly prevalent in the USA.

The American Physical Society annually awards named after him Sakurai Prize for outstanding achievements in the theory of elementary particles ( he is in this area as the highest price). It was donated by Sakurai's family in 1984.

He was from 1962 to 1966 Sloan Fellow, 1964-1982 Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1975-1976 Guggenheim Fellow and 1981-1982 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Works

• Modern Quantum Mechanics. Benjamin - Cummings, 1985, Reading, Addison -Wesley 2003
• Advanced Quantum Mechanics. Addison -Wesley 1967, 2nd edition 1973
• Currents and mesons. University of Chicago Press 1969
• Invariance principles and elementary particles. Princeton in 1964, 1969