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William A. Bardeen

American physicist · United States · Scientists · Lived 1941 to 2025 · aged 84

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William Allan Bardeen was an American theoretical physicist who worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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2025Died18 November 20252008Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1996Sakurai PrizeAward1984Fellow of the American Physical SocietyAward1941Born15 September 1941

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2008
Sakurai Prize1996
Fellow of the American Physical Society1984
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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William Allan Bardeen was an American theoretical physicist who worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is renowned for his foundational work on the chiral anomaly, the Yang-Mills and gravitational anomalies, the development of quantum chromodynamics and the scheme frequently used in perturbative analysis of experimentally observable processes such as deep inelastic scattering, high energy collisions and flavor changing processes.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1941 to 2025 · aged 84

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