James "BJ" Bjorken
- Born: June 22, 1934 (Chicago, Illinois)
Education
- 1956: BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1959: PhD, Stanford University
Major Positions
- 1960–1960: Stanford University, Research Associate
- 1961–1979: Stanford University, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1979–1989: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Associate Director for Physics
- 1989–1998: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Theoretical Physicist
- 1998–present: Stanford University, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1995–1996: Oxford University, Eastman Professor
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1983–1986: Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1972: American Physical Society, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 1973: National Academy of Sciences, Member
Published Resources
James Bjorken, "Deep-Inelastic Scattering: From Current Algebra to Partons," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 589-599
