Bruno Zumino
Bruno Zumino ( born April 28, 1923 in Rome ) is an Italian professor of theoretical physics.
Biography
Zumino acquired in 1945 at the University of Rome, the Diploma in physics ( Laurea ). 1951-1953 he was a researcher at New York University, where he was from 1953 to 1968 Assistant Professor of Physics. 1968 to 1981 he was at CERN ( where he was Senior Physicist in the late 1970s ) and was appointed in 1981 as professor at the University of Berkeley. Since 1994 he is Professor Emeritus. 1959/60 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. 1984 to 1987 he was in the advisory committee of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Zumino deals with quantum field theory in the context of mathematical physics. For example, he worked in the 1950s with Günther Lüders via the spin- statistics theorem and in the 1980s on chiral anomalies. In 1973, Bruno Zumino developed (then working at CERN ) and Julius Wess (then worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Karlsruhe) as some of the first to the theoretical concept of supersymmetry, which as a candidate for Big unified theories and as a candidate for the dark matter under discussion is. According to him, the Wess - Zumino - Witten model is named in the conformal field theory.
He is married to physicist Mary Gaillard.