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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald Guralnik has received more than 91,228 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gerald Guralnik is the 639th most popular physicist (up from 676th in 2019), the 6,410th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,991st in 2019) and the 136th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerald Guralnik ranks 639 out of 851. Before him are Francis Hauksbee, Gerard K. O'Neill, Alfred Landé, Tullio Regge, Victor J. Stenger, and Harriet Brooks. After him are Isaak Khalatnikov, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph Kronig, Ferdinand Monoyer, Frederick Guthrie, and Ștefania Mărăcineanu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Gerald Guralnik ranks 358. Before him are Hans van den Broek, David Suzuki, Abdelhamid Brahimi, Revaz Gabriadze, Néstor Gonçalves, and Alfredo Zitarrosa. After him are Michał Heller, Vladimir Maslachenko, James Jamerson, Med Hondo, Larry Cohen, and John Shalikashvili. Among people deceased in 2014, Gerald Guralnik ranks 294. Before him are Tullio Regge, Étienne Mourrut, Bobby Womack, Joseph Sargent, Victor J. Stenger, and Cornell Borchers. After him are Alakbar Mammadov, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Takako Doi, Mithat Bayrak, Ferdinando Terruzzi, and Lucius Shepard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 6,410 out of 20,380. Before him are Victor Buono (1938), Anne Shirley (1918), Isaiah Thomas (1989), Will Yun Lee (1971), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), and Robert B. Parker (1932). After him are Richard Lewontin (1929), Jim Keltner (1942), Cordwainer Smith (1913), Jack Coleman (1958), Jakob Dylan (1969), and Randy Brecker (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 136. Before him are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Victor J. Stenger (1935). After him are Charles Stark Draper (1901), William Higinbotham (1910), Lee Smolin (1955), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), and John C. Slater (1900).

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