Physics: Julian Schwinger

Physics: Julian Schwinger
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Julian Schwinger (1918) Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist.

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Julian Schwinger (1918) J ulian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist.

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Why is Julian Schwinger remembered? Ev ery major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Julian Schwinger was one of those people.

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About Julian Schwinger Julian Seymour Schwinger (; February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and S hin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles". He developed a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and renormalized QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities. Schwinger is recognized as an important physicist, 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. He shared the inaugural Albert Einstein Award with Kurt Gödel.