Richard Slansky

Richard C. Slansky (* 1940 † 16 January 1998) was an American theoretical physicist.

Slansky studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. As a post-doc, he was at Caltech and then five years at Yale University, before joining in 1974 the newly founded theory for elementary particle physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Peter Carruthers. He became head of the Theory Department in 1989. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He died of a brain aneurysm.

Slansky dealt with GUTs. Well-known and much used among GUT theorists his essay " Group theory for unified model building" was ( Physics Reports Bd.79, 1981, p.1 -128 ). In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Santa Fe Institute.

He was a member of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.