Julian Schwinger
Physicist, Academic
1918 – 1994
Who was Julian Schwinger?
Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a professor in the physics department at UCLA.
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 electroweak model, 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.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1918
New York City - Also known as
- Julian Seymour Schwinger
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- City College of New York
- PhD, Columbia University
Physics
(1936 - 1939) - Townsend Harris High School
- Employment
- Purdue University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Los Angeles
(1972 - 1994/07/16)
- Died
- Jul 16, 1994
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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