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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
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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[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.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, March 1995.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
2976737
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.
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