Roberto Peccei

Roberto Peccei
Roberto Peccei
Born	Roberto Daniele Peccei; January 6, 1942; Torino, Italy
Died	June 1, 2020 (aged 78)
Nationality	Italian
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Ph.D.); New York University (M.S.);
Known for	Peccei–Quinn theory
Awards	J.J. Sakurai Prize (2013);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University of Washington (1969-1971); Stanford University (1971–1978); Max Planck Institute (1978–1984); DESY (1984–1989); UCLA (1989–2020);
Thesis	The chiral dynamic method and its applications in high energy physics (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Alan Johnson
Doctoral students	Marcela Carena

Roberto Daniele Peccei (Italian: [petˈtʃɛi]; January 6, 1942 – June 1, 2020) was a theoretical particle physicist whose principal interests lay in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology. He was most known for formulating the Peccei–Quinn theory (with Helen Quinn), which attempts to resolve the strong CP problem in particle physics.

Peccei was a vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Los Angeles between 2000 and 2010.

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