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Celebration of Gerry

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I recall my long association with Gerald Guralnik and discuss his pioneering contributions to elementary-particle theory.

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Correspondence to Roman Jackiw.

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Based on my talk at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, on May 5, 2010.

Roman Jackiw is Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jackiw, R. Celebration of Gerry. Phys. Perspect. 13, 104–109 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-010-0036-3

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Keywords

  • Gerald Guralnik
  • Philip W. Anderson
  • Robert Brout
  • Tapaskumar Das
  • François Englert
  • Carl R. Hagen
  • Peter W. Higgs
  • Gerard ’t Hooft
  • Tom W.B. Kibble
  • Francis E. Low
  • Vishnu S. Mathur
  • Abdus Salam
  • Julian Schwinger
  • Martinus Veltman
  • Steven Weinberg
  • James E. Young
  • elementary particles
  • Standard Model
  • Higgs mechanism
  • guage invariance
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • Goldstone theorem
  • Sakurai Prize
  • Large Hadron Collider