James Bjorken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Bjorken

American physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1934

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

James Daniel "BJ" Bjorken (born 1934) 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 Advanced Study in the fall of 1962.
Bjorken is Emeritus Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was a member of the Theory Department of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1979–1989). He was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2004; and, in 2015, the Wolf Prize in Physics and the EPS High energy and particle physics prize. (de:High Energy and Particle Physics Prize)