Bruno Zumino

He was renowned for his rigorous proof of the CPT theorem with Gerhart Lüders; his pioneering systematization of effective chiral Lagrangians; the discoveries, with Julius Wess, of the Wess–Zumino model, the first four-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory with Bose–Fermi degeneracy, and initiator of the field of supersymmetric radiative restrictions; a concise formulation of supergravity; and for his deciphering of structured flavour-chiral anomalies, codified in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model of conformal field theory.

Awards

• 1985 Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• 1987 Dirac Medal of the ICTP
• 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
• 1989 Max Planck Medal
• 1992 Wigner Medal
• 1992 Humboldt Research Award
• 1999 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Gold Medal
• 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society