J. J. Sakurai

Jun John Sakurai
桜井 純
Born	(1933-01-31)January 31, 1933 Tokyo, Japan
Died	November 1, 1982(1982-11-01) (aged 49) Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality	Japan United States
Alma mater	Bronx High School of Science Harvard University Cornell University
Known for	Sakurai and Napolitano
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Chicago University of California, Los Angeles California Institute of Technology Universities of Tokyo and Nagoya University of Paris at Orsay Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa Stanford Linear Accelerator CERN at Geneva Max Planck Institute at Munich
Thesis	A theory of weak interactions (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Hans Bethe

Jun John Sakurai (桜井 純, Sakurai Jun, January 31, 1933 – November 1, 1982) 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.^[1]

He authored the popular graduate text Modern Quantum Mechanics (1985, published posthumously) and other texts such as Invariance Principles and Elementary Particles (1964) and Advanced Quantum Mechanics (1967).