James Bjorken

Who they were

Personal life and death In 1967, Bjorken married Joan Goldthwaite; they had two children and were married until her death in 1983. [ 1 ] He lived in Sky Londa, California . [ 1 ] Bjorken died from melanoma at a care facility in Redwood City, California , on August 6, 2024 at the age of 90. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ^ a b c Miller, Katrina (August 31, 2024). "James Bjorken, 90, Who Helped Discover Quarks" . The New York Times . p. A20 . Retrieved August 31, 2024 .

James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962. He was also emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989).

Early life

Educated at: Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life and education James Bjorken's father, J. Daniel Bjorken, was an immigrant from Sweden near Lake Siljan . He changed his surname from "Björkén" to Bjorken upon arriving in the US; he moved to Chicago to work as an electrical engineer, which was where he met his future wife, Edith. James Bjorken grew up in Chicago and enjoyed mathematics, chemistry, the French horn, and watching the Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field . After graduating from Maine East High School in 1952,

Path and career

Worked with / for: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, and Stanford University.

Awards / honours: Wolf Prize in Physics, High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Work Bjorken discovered in 1968 what is known as light-cone scaling (or Bjorken scaling ), a phenomenon in the deep inelastic scattering of light on strongly interacting particles, known as hadrons (such as protons and neutrons ): Experimentally observed hadrons behave as collections of virtually independent point-like constituents when probed at high energies. Properties of these hadrons scale, that is, they are determined not by the absolute energy of an experiment, but, instead,

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