James Bjorken
American theoretical physicist
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James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken is an American theoretical physicist. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954, received a BS in physics from MIT in 1956, and obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1959. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for... Wikipedia
Born: 1934 (age 89 years), Chicago, IL
Awards: Wolf Prize in Physics
Alma mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS); Stanford University (PhD)
Known for: Bjorken scaling; Intrabeam scattering; Jet quenching; Co-predicting the charm quark