MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 15 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: * * * His wide-ranging curiosity, novel way of looking at problems and sheer joy in solving them drove many important contributions to particle physics. * * * Theoretical physicist James D. "BJ" Bjorken, a professor emeritus at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University whose work played a key role in revealing the exist  more