Bruno Zumino (28 April 1923 − 21 June 2014) was an Italian
theoretical physicist and faculty member at the
University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his DSc degree from the
University of Rome in 1945.
He was renowned for his rigorous proof of the
CPT theorem
Charge, parity, and time reversal symmetry is a fundamental symmetry of physical laws under the simultaneous transformations of charge conjugation (C), parity transformation (P), and time reversal (T). CPT is the only combination of C, P, and ...
with
Gerhart Lüders
Gerhart Lüders (25 February 1920 – 31 January 1995) was a German theoretical physicist who worked mainly in quantum field theory and was well known for the discovery and a general proof of the CPT theorem. This theorem is also called the ''Paul ...
; his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians; the discoveries, with
Julius Wess
Julius Erich Wess (5 December 19348 August 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry and conformal field theory. He was also a ...
, of the
Wess–Zumino model, the first four-dimensional
supersymmetric
In a supersymmetric theory the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with this property has the principle of supersymmetry (SUSY). Dozens of supersymmetric theories e ...
quantum field theory with Bose-Fermi degeneracy, and initiator of the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions; a concise formulation of
supergravity
In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory; SUGRA for short) is a modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as ...
;
and for his deciphering of structured flavor-chiral anomalies, codified in the
Wess–Zumino–Witten model
In theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Ed ...
of
conformal field theory
A conformal field theory (CFT) is a quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal transformations. In two dimensions, there is an infinite-dimensional algebra of local conformal transformations, and conformal field theories can sometimes ...
.
Awards
* 1985
Membership
Member may refer to:
* Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
* Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
* In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
** Field (computer science), entries in ...
in the
National Academy of Sciences
* 1987
Dirac Medal of the ICTP
* 1988
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
* 1989
Max Planck Medal
* 1992
Wigner Medal
* 1992
Humboldt Research Award
* 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
* 2005
Enrico Fermi Prize
The Enrico Fermi Prize, first awarded in 2001, is given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica). It is a yearly award of €30,000 honoring one or more Members of the Society who have "particularly honoured physics with thei ...
of the
Italian Physical Society
See also
*
Polyakov action
References
External links
Zumino's faculty page at BerkeleyBiographical outline at the APSScientific publications of Bruno Zumino
on INSPIRE-HEP
Mary K. Gaillard, "Bruno Zumino", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
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1923 births
2014 deaths
20th-century Italian physicists
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Rome
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Theoretical physicists
Mathematical physicists
People associated with CERN
Winners of the Max Planck Medal
Italian expatriates in the United States