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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.In 2010, Guralnik was awarded the American Physical Society's J. J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald Guralnik has received more than 83,073 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gerald Guralnik is the 676th most popular physicist, the 8,006th most popular biography from United States and the 142nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gerald Guralnik ranks 676 out of 717. Before him are Pief Panofsky, Joseph Polchinski, Bernard Lovell, Vladimir Veksler, Robert L. Forward, and Robert R. Wilson. After him are Ernst Stueckelberg, Abraham Pais, Sulamith Goldhaber, Clyde Cowan, Frank Benford, and Leonard Mlodinow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Gerald Guralnik ranks 416. Before him are Robert A. Parker, Elizabeth Dole, Sergio Navarro, Lawrence Gordon, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, and Dmitri Anosov. After him are Ronnie Bucknum, Michel Jazy, Nicolas Alfonsi, James Stacy, Ismail Merchant, and Ihor Turchyn. Among people deceased in 2014, Gerald Guralnik ranks 368. Before him are Kira Zvorykina, Georgi Slavkov, Dominique Baudis, François Deguelt, Dmitri Anosov, and Gerry Goffin. After him are Wayne Static, Cornell Borchers, Elaine Stritch, Andriy Bal, Farley Mowat, and Glenn Cornick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 8,006 out of 18,182. Before him are Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973), George Russell (1923), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Aimee Garcia (1978), Dana Carvey (1955), and Joan Van Ark (1943). After him are Ed Begley Jr. (1949), Rudy Rucker (1946), Wayne Static (1965), Larry Kramer (1935), Dwight Howard (1985), and Lucy Hale (1989).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Gerald Guralnik ranks 142. Before him are Leona Woods (1919), Lisa Randall (1962), Ash Carter (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Robert L. Forward (1932), and Robert R. Wilson (1914). After him are Clyde Cowan (1919), Frank Benford (1883), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Charles H. Bennett (1943), John Clauser (1942), and Charles W. Misner (1932).

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