Bruno Zumino | |
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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) |
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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.
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