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    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...
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    27±0.02 GeV/c2 as measured in 2022 and a charge of +2/3 e. In 1964, James Bjorken and Sheldon Glashow theorized on the charm quark, and in 1970, Glashow...
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  • immediately applied to electron-proton deep inelastic scattering by James Bjorken and Emmanuel Anthony Paschos. A hadron is composed of a number of point-like...
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    extensions to the Gell-Mann–Zweig model were proposed. Sheldon Glashow and James Bjorken predicted the existence of a fourth flavor of quark, which they called...
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    three quarks (up, down, and strange) were thought to exist. Glashow and James Bjorken predicted a fourth quark in 1964, but there was little evidence for...
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  • scattering for the elucidation of the nature of the strong interactions." James Bjorken 2005 Patrick A. Lee "his work on weak localization and interaction effects...
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  • al-Bīrūnī – Persia (973–1048) Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway (1862–1951) James Bjorken – United States (born 1934) Patrick Blackett – U.K. (1897–1974) Nobel...
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    break down. This was the more radical approach of S-matrix theory. James Bjorken proposed that pointlike partons would imply certain relations in deep...
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    was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. In collaboration with James Bjorken, Glashow was the first to predict a fourth quark, the charm quark, in...
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    Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with James Bjorken. Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and...
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