J.J. Sakurai papers, 1950-1982

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Summary

Creators:
Sakurai, J.J. (Jun John)
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.
Extent:
3.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
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.

Background

Scope and content:

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

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mrs. Noriko Sakurai, 1984-87.
Processing information:

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Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, March 1995.

Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

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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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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