J. J. Sakurai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

J. J. Sakurai

American physicist

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1933

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1982

Profession: physicist, university teacher, academic

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jun John Sakurai (?? ?, Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist. While a graduate student at Cornell University, Sakurai independently discovered the V-A theory of weak interactions.He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985-posthumous) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967).