Papers.

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Papers.

The collection is fragmentary, consisting mainly of printed materials by and about Sakurai and some correspondence.

6 document boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8290656

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Sakurai, J. J. (Jun John), 1933-1982

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Sakurai was born in Tokyo in 1933; graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1955; Ph. D, Cornell, 1958; while still a student at Cornell, he independently discovered the V-A theory of the weak interactions; became an asst. professor at Univ. of Chicago in 1959 and a full professor in 1964; joined UCLA Dept. of Physics in 1970; was a Sloan Fellow (1962-66), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1964-82), a Guggenheim Fellow (1975-76), and a von Humboldt Fellow (1981-82); publications includ...