Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (PhD)
Known for
Bjorken scaling Intrabeam scattering Jet quenching Co-predicting the charm quark
Awards
Putnam Fellow (1954) Heineman Prize (1972) E. O. Lawrence Award (1977) Pomeranchuk Prize (2000) ICTP Dirac Medal (2004) Wolf Prize in Physics (2015) EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2015)
Scientific career
Fields
Theoretical physics
Institutions
Fermilab, SLAC
Doctoral students
Davison Soper Helen Quinn
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (born 1934) is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954,[1] received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962.[2] Bjorken is emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).
He was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2004; and, in 2015, the Wolf Prize in Physics and the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.[3]
^"Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
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James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (born 1934) is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956...
27±0.02 GeV/c2 as measured in 2022 and a charge of +2/3 e. In 1964, JamesBjorken and Sheldon Glashow theorized on the charm quark, and in 1970, Glashow...
three quarks (up, down, and strange) were thought to exist. Glashow and JamesBjorken predicted a fourth quark in 1964, but there was little evidence for...
extensions to the Gell-Mann–Zweig model were proposed. Sheldon Glashow and JamesBjorken predicted the existence of a fourth flavor of quark, which they called...
break down. This was the more radical approach of S-matrix theory. JamesBjorken proposed that pointlike partons would imply certain relations in deep...
scattering were done by Anton Piwinski in 1974 and JamesBjorken and Sekazi Mtingwa in 1983. The Bjorken-Mtingwa formulation is regarded as being the most...
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was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. In collaboration with JamesBjorken, Glashow was the first to predict a fourth quark, the charm quark, in...
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with JamesBjorken. Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and...
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Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble. 1964 – Sheldon Glashow and JamesBjorken predict the existence of the charm quark. The addition is proposed because...
papers in its history. Existence of the charm quark is speculated by JamesBjorken and Sheldon Glashow. John Stewart Bell publishes a paper on the EPR...
mass of the proton. It was predicted in 1964 by Sheldon Glashow and JamesBjorken and first observed in November 1974, with the simultaneous discovery...
1945. Kogut received in 1971 his PhD from Stanford University under JamesBjorken with thesis Quantum electrodynamics at infinite momentum: applications...
theory with spontaneous Lorentz breaking. Twelve years later, in 1963, JamesBjorken proposed a model in which collective excitations of a fermion field...
members in the SLAC Theory Group include: JamesBjorken, discoverer of Bjorken Scaling (light-cone scaling) and Bjorken Sum Rule, 2004 Dirac Medal recipient...
bachelor's degree in 1965 from Amherst College and his PhD in 1971 under JamesBjorken from Stanford University, where he worked with John Kogut. Soper was...
of operator products. Similar methods were introduced by JamesBjorken (SLAC). The Bjorken–Johnson–Low Limit was used extensively in the study of scaling...
Faddeev 1974 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1973 Kenneth G. Wilson 1972 James D. Bjorken 1971 Roger Penrose 1970 Yoichiro Nambu 1969 Arthur S. Wightman 1968...
sources. Kamil Běhounek (1916–1983) Luciano Biondini (born 1971) Asmund Bjørken (1933–2018) Stian Carstensen (born 1971) Gabriel Fliflet (born 1958) Richard...
cellist and winner of the NRK talent award Virtuos. January 29 – Asmund Bjørken, jazz and traditional folk accordionist and saxophonist (born 1933). 30...
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