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Gerald Guralnik

1936 - 2014

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Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (; September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964, he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerald Guralnik is the 728th most popular physicist (down from 640th in 2019), the 8,951st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,409th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerald Guralnik ranks 728 out of 851. Before him are Bill Nye, Ernst Ising, Charles Stark Draper, Rudolf Haag, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, and Nicholas Metropolis. After him are Karl Taylor Compton, Walter Gordon, Arthur Schuster, James Hartle, Gregor Wentzel, and Roald Sagdeev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Gerald Guralnik ranks 453. Before him are Andrzej Zieliński, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Taisia Chenchik, Manfred Stolpe, and Lane Smith. After him are Dmitri Anosov, Zhong Nanshan, Fleur Mellor, Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Otto Leodolter, and Kenneth Copeland. Among people deceased in 2014, Gerald Guralnik ranks 418. Before him are Bruno Zumino, Jan Werner, Kate O'Mara, Don Keefer, Gerry Goffin, and Blagoje Paunović. After him are Dave Power, Dmitri Anosov, Mustapha Zitouni, Ivica Brzić, Abel Laudonio, and Erik Hansen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 8,953 out of 20,380. Before him are Alessandro Nivola (1972), Yvonne Craig (1937), Lawrence Bender (1957), Henry Dreyfuss (1904), Doc Rivers (1961), and Connie Sawyer (1912). After him are Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931), Carl Johnson (1898), Dale Earnhardt (1951), William C. deMille (1878), Mel Tormé (1925), and Armin Shimerman (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 162. Before him are Joseph Polchinski (1954), Elliott H. Lieb (1932), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Bill Nye (1955), Charles Stark Draper (1901), and Nicholas Metropolis (1915). After him are Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), Seymour Benzer (1921), Shirley Ann Jackson (1946), Robert Bacher (1905), and Stanton T. Friedman (1934).

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