Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of

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. In 1964, he co-discovered the

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and

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with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of ''

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'' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2010, Guralnik was awarded the

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's J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for the "elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic

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and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses". Guralnik received his B.S. degree from the

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in 1958 and his Ph.D. degree from

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in 1964. He went to Imperial College London as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the

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and then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. In the fall of 1967 Guralnik went to

and frequently visited Imperial College and Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a staff member from 1985 to 1987. While at Los Alamos, he did extensive work on the development and application of computational methods for lattice QCD. Guralnik died of a heart attack at age 77 in 2014.

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Papers written by G. Guralnik on Google ScholarPapers written by G. Guralnik in the INSPIRE-HEP databaseSakurai Prize Videos
* *Guralnik, Gerald (2013)
"Heretical Ideas that Provided the Cornerstone for the Standard Model of Particle Physics".
SPG MITTEILUNGEN March 2013, No. 39, p. 14 {{DEFAULTSORT:Guralnik, Gerald American particle physicists Brown University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Harvard University alumni 1936 births 2014 deaths American theoretical physicists J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni

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