Finding Aid for the J.J. Sakurai Papers LSC.1355

Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff, March 1995; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: J.J. Sakurai papers
Creator: Sakurai, J.J. (Jun John)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1355
Physical Description: 3.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1950-1982
Abstract: J.J. Sakurai (1933-1982) was a physicist credited with independently discovering the V-A theory of the weak interactions. He was a professor in the UCLA Department of Physics (1970- ), 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). The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and publications related to Sakurai's career and life.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], J.J. Sakurai Papers (Collection 1355). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Noriko Sakurai, 1984-87.

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Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, March 1995.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 2976737 

Biography

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 assistant professor at University of Chicago in 1959 and a full professor in 1964; joined UCLA Department 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 include Advanced quantum mechanics (1967) and Modern quantum mechanics (c. 1985); died in Geneva in 1982.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and publications related to the career and life of UCLA physicist J.J. Sakurai.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Physicists -- United States -- Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Faculty -- Archives
Sakurai, J.J. (Jun John) -- Archives

box 1

Biographical.

Scope and Contents note

Obituary notices, etc.
box 4

Class Notes. 1957.

General note

Identified by instructors.
box 6

Conference correspondence. 1971.

Scope and Contents note

Batavia weekend correspondence.
box 1

Faculty Center.

box 6

Guggenheim Fellowship. 1972.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, etc.
box 3

Harvard Admissions Correspondence.

box 3

Manuscript in Japanese.

General note

[Not identified in English]
box 3

Notes in Japanese.

box 3

Photographs.

box 4

Professional Writings.

Scope and Contents note

Letters rejecting articles.
box 7, folder 1-2

Sakurai Memorial correspondence.

box 7

Sakurai Papers.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence about.
 

Correspondence

box 4

ca. 1976-1982.

Scope and Contents note

Professional correspondence with physicists, physics journals, professional associations, etc.
box 5

[]. v.d.

Scope and Contents note

Personal correspondence, immigration status correspondence, etc.
 

Publications

box 7, folder 1-4

Correspondence about Modern Quantum Physics.

box 2

J.J. Sakurai: Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967, revised 1973).

box 6

Modern Quantum Physics edition (1985

 

Reprints

box 5

Sakurai physics article.

box 6

Labeled important.