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James Bjorken
American physicist (1934–2024)
James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (June 22, 1934 – August 6, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954,[1] received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959.
James bjorken biography
Bjorken was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1962.[2] 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).
Bjorken was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2004; and, in 2015, the Wolf Prize in Physics and the EPSHigh Energy and Particle Physics Prize.[3]
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