J. J. Sakurai

1933 - 1982

country of citizenship: Japan, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Harvard University, Cornell University, The Bronx High School of Science

occupation: physicist, academic, university teacher

Jun John Sakurai (桜井純, Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist. While a graduate student at Cornell University, Sakurai independently discovered the V-A theory of weak interactions.He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985, published posthumously) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967). Source: Wikipedia (en)