Bruno Zumino
Italian physicist (1923–2014)
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Bruno Zumino (28 April 1923 − 21 June 2014)[1] 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.[2]
Bruno Zumino | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 April 1923 |
| Died | 21 June 2014 (aged 91) |
| Education | 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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Workplaces | Berkeley CERN New York University |
He was renowned for his rigorous proof of the CPT theorem with Gerhart Lüders;[3] his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians;[4] the discoveries, with Julius Wess, of the Wess–Zumino model,[5] 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;[6] and for his deciphering of structured flavour-chiral anomalies, codified in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model of conformal field theory.[7]
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
