Stanley Brodsky
Stanley J. Brodsky (born January 9, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1961 and his PhD in physics in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral advisor was Donald R. Yennie. After two years as a research associate with Tsung-Dao Lee at Columbia University, he joined SLAC in 1966 and became a full professor in 1976.
Brodsky’s research focuses on quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of how quarks and gluons interact in the strong force. He is known for influential work with Glennys Farrar in 1973 on scaling laws at large transverse momentum, and with Peter Lepage in 1980 on exclusive processes in perturbative QCD.
These contributions helped him win the Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2007 for applying perturbative quantum field theory to hard exclusive strong-interaction processes. He also received the Pomeranchuk Prize in 2015 for his theoretical work.
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