J. J. Sakurai Quotes

Jun John Sakurai 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 and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles and Advanced Quantum Mechanics . Wikipedia

✵ 31. January 1933 – 1. November 1982

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J. J. Sakurai Quotes

“…we see a number of sophisticated, yet uneducated, theoreticians who are conversant in the LSZ formalism of the Heisenberg field operators, but do not know why an excited atom radiates, or are ignorant of the quantum theoretic deerivation of Rayleigh's law that accounts for the blueness of the sky.”

Modern Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011.

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