| Bruno Zumino | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1923-04-28)28 April 1923 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 21 June 2014(2014-06-21) (aged 91) Berkeley, California |
| Alma mater | University of Rome |
| Known for | Wess-Zumino model Wess–Zumino–Witten model Wess–Zumino consistency condition Coleman–Wess–Zumino construction for nonlinear symmetries Pure 4D N = 1 supergravity |
| Awards | Dirac Medal (1987) Heineman Prize (1988) Max Planck Medal (1989) Wigner Medal (1992) Humboldt Prize (1992) Enrico Fermi Prize (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Berkeley CERN New York University |
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 with Gerhart Lüders; his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians; the discoveries, with Julius Wess, of the Wess–Zumino model, the first four-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory with Bose–Fermi degeneracy, and initiator of the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions; a concise formulation of supergravity; and for his deciphering of structured flavour-chiral anomalies, codified in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model of conformal field theory.
Awards
- 1985 Membership 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 of the Italian Physical Society
See also
References
- Chang, Kenneth (2014-07-05). "Bruno Zumino Dies at 91; Sought to Tie Together Laws of Universe". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on Jun 22, 2023.
- Sanders, Robert (June 24, 2014). "Bruno Zumino, an architect of supersymmetry, dies at 91". Berkeley News. Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- Lüders, G.; Zumino, B. (1958). "Connection between Spin and Statistics". Physical Review. 110 (6): 1450. Bibcode:1958PhRv..110.1450L. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.110.1450.
- Coleman, S.; Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1969). "Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. I". Physical Review. 177 (5): 2239. Bibcode:1969PhRv..177.2239C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2239.; Callan, C.; Coleman, S.; Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1969). "Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. II". Physical Review. 177 (5): 2247. Bibcode:1969PhRv..177.2247C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.177.2247.
- Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1974). "Supergauge transformations in four dimensions" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 70 (1): 39–50. Bibcode:1974NuPhB..70...39W. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(74)90355-1.
- Deser, S., & Zumino, B. (1976). "Consistent supergravity", Physics Letters B62 335-337. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(76)90089-7
- Wess, J.; Zumino, B. (1971). "Consequences of anomalous ward identities" (PDF). Physics Letters B. 37 (1): 95–97. Bibcode:1971PhLB...37...95W. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(71)90582-X.
Scholia has an author profile for Bruno Zumino.
External links
- Zumino's faculty page at Berkeley
- Zumino's research page at Berkeley
- Biographical outline at the APS
- Scientific publications of Bruno Zumino on INSPIRE-HEP
- Mary K. Gaillard, "Bruno Zumino", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
- 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
- Italian theoretical physicists
- Mathematical physicists
- People associated with CERN
- Winners of the Max Planck Medal
- Italian expatriates in the United States