James Daniel Bjorken
Professional Academic History
Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1959-1962; Associate Professor, Professor, SLAC, 1962-1979; Theoretical Physicist, Associate Director for Physics, Fermi Lab, 1979-1989; Theoretical Physicist, SLAC, 1989-1998; Emeritus Professor, Stanford University, 1998–present.
Research Interests
Theoretical physics: hadron physics, especially short distance constituent structure, B physics, particle production mechanisms in high energy collisions, diffractive processes, and disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) production; hydrodynamic picture of heavy ion collisions; cosmology, especially structure of universes and black holes. Experimental physics: searches for axions and for DCC; conceptual design of detectors which observe complete events in high energy hadron collisions. Accelerator physics: Theory of beam growth due to intrabeam scattering.
Areas of Interest and Research
Theoretical physics: hadron physics, especially short distance constituent structure, B physics, particle production mechanisms in high energy collisions, diffractive processes, and disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) production; hydrodynamic picture of heavy ion collisions; cosmology, especially structure of universes and black holes. Experimental physics: searches for axions and for DCC; conceptual design of detectors which observe complete events in high energy hadron collisions. Accelerator physics: Theory of beam growth due to intrabeam scattering.
Education
Awards & Honors
Dannie Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society; Ernest Orlando Lawrence Medal, awarded by the Department of Energy for research in theoretical physics; Honorary Doctorate, University of Torino; Eastman Professor, Oxford University, 1995-1996; Dirac Medal, 2004; Wolf Prize (Physics), 2015; Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators, 2017.
