Julian Schwinger

Julian Seymour Schwinger (/ˈʃwɪŋər/; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities.

Julian Schwinger
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Born Julian Seymour Schwinger
February 12, 1918
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died July 16, 1994(aged 76)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States
Alma mater City College of New York
Columbia University
Known for Quantum electrodynamics
Spin–statistics theorem
Sigma model
MacMahon Master theorem
List of things named after Julian Schwinger
Spouse(s) Clarice Carrol (m. 1947)
Awards Albert Einstein Award(1951)
National Medal of Science (1964)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Purdue University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor Isidor Isaac Rabi
Doctoral students Roy Glauber
Ben R. Mottelson
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Walter Kohn
Bryce DeWitt
Daniel Kleitman
Sam Edwards
Gordon Baym
Lowell S. Brown
Stanley Deser
Lawrence Paul Horwitz
Margaret G. Kivelson
Tung-Mow Yan

Julian Schwinger, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. Original caption: “His laboratory is his ballpoint pen.”

Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field theory, including a variational approach, and the equations of motion for quantum fields. He developed the first electroweakmodel, and the first example of confinement in 1+1 dimensions. He is responsible for the theory of multiple neutrinos, Schwinger terms, and the theory of the spin 3/2 field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger

Julian Schwinger was last modified: July 15th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

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