Julian Schwinger: Nuclear Physics, the Radiation Laboratory, Renormalized QED, Source Theory, and Beyond

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dc.creatorMilton, K. A.
dc.date2006-10-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:28:27Z
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dc.descriptionJulian Schwinger's influence on twentieth century science is profound and pervasive. Of course, he is most famous for his renormalization theory of quantum electrodynamics, for which he shared the Nobel Prize with Richard Feynman and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. But although this triumph was undoubtedly his most heroic work, his legacy lives on chiefly through subtle and elegant work in classical electrodynamics, quantum variational principles, proper-time methods, quantum anomalies, dynamical mass generation, partial symmetry, and more. Starting as just a boy, he rapidly became the pre-eminent nuclear physicist in the late 1930s, led the theoretical development of radar technology at MIT during World War II, and then, soon after the war, conquered quantum electrodynamics, and became the leading quantum field theorist for two decades, before taking a more iconoclastic route during his last quarter century.
dc.description54 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610054
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610054
dc.identifierPhys.Perspect.9:70-114,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1007/s00016-007-0326-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196445
dc.subjectHistory and Philosophy of Physics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleJulian Schwinger: Nuclear Physics, the Radiation Laboratory, Renormalized QED, Source Theory, and Beyond
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