William Joseph Marciano (born October 11, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics.
[1] At Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) he was in 1978 a research collaborator in 1978 and in 1981 joined the physics department and was granted tenure.
[1]With Heinz Pagels he wrote a highly-cited review article on quantum chromodynamics, published in Physics Reports in 1978.
[3] The research of Marciano and Sirlin was important for experiments at BNL for the precise determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the precise calculation of the masses of the W and Z bosons involved in electroweak interactions;[4] such calculations are important for estimating the mass of the Higgs boson.
In 2002 he received, jointly with Alberto Sirlin, the Sakurai Prize for "their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics.