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... 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.

J. J. Sakurai

J. J. Sakurai

J. J. Sakurai

Born: January 31, 1933

Died: November 1, 1982 (aged 49)

Bio: Jun John Sakurai was a Japanese-American particle physicist and theorist.

Known for:

Modern Quantum Mechanics
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967)
Currents and Mesons (1969)

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