John Iliopoulos

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John Iliopoulos is a Greek theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to particle physics, including co-formulating the Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani (GIM) mechanism that helped establish the existence of the charm quark.

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instanceOf human
theoretical physicist
affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l’ENS
awardReceived Dirac Medal
linked to: Dirac Prize

Grand Prix de l’Académie des Sciences
Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
Sakurai Prize
coAuthorOf Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani mechanism
coAuthorWith Luciano Maiani
Sheldon Glashow
contributedTo Standard Model of particle physics
linked to: Standard Model

theory of flavor-changing neutral currents suppression
countryOfCitizenship Greece
dateOfBirth 1940
doctoralAdvisor Lois Michel
educatedAt National Technical University of Athens
University of Paris
employer Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
École Normale Supérieure
familyName Iliopoulos
fieldOfWork particle physics
quantum field theory
theoretical physics
gender male
givenName John
hasAcademicDiscipline elementary particle theory
high-energy physics
hasHonorificTitle emeritus professor
influenced development of charm quark theory
knownFor Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani mechanism
prediction of the charm quark
work on gauge theories
languageSpoken English
French
memberOf Academy of Athens
French Academy of Sciences
namedAfter John Iliopoulos
Luciano Maiani
Sheldon Glashow
nativeLanguage Greek
notableStudent Nima Arkani-Hamed
notableWork “Weak Interactions with Lepton–Hadron Symmetry”
placeOfBirth Athens
placeOfResidence Paris
positionHeld professor at École Normale Supérieure
theoryDeveloped GIM mechanism

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GIM mechanism namedAfter John Iliopoulos
Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani mechanism namedAfter John Iliopoulos
subject linked to: John Iliopoulos
Sam Treiman coauthor John Iliopoulos
subject linked to: Treiman
Luciano Maiani coAuthorWith John Iliopoulos