Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

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Japanese person human physicist theoretical physicist

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga was a Japanese theoretical physicist renowned for his fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics, for which he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Aliases (1)

Shin’ichirō Tomonaga ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese person → human → physicist → theoretical physicist →
awardReceived	Lomonosov Gold Medal → Nobel Prize in Physics → Order of Culture →
birthDate	1906-03-31 →
birthPlace	Empire of Japan → Tokyo →
causeOfDeath	cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	Japan →
deathDate	1979-07-08 →
deathPlace	Japan → Tokyo →
doctoralAdvisor	Yoshio Nishina →
educatedAt	Kyoto Imperial University →
employer	Kyoto University → Tokyo University → Tokyo University of Education →
era	20th-century physics →
familyName	Tomonaga →
fieldOfWork	quantum electrodynamics → quantum field theory → theoretical physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Sin-Itiro →
influencedBy	Paul Dirac → Werner Heisenberg →
knownFor	Tomonaga–Schwinger equation → fundamental contributions to quantum electrodynamics → renormalization in quantum electrodynamics →
languageOfWorkOrName	Japanese →
memberOf	Japan Academy →
name	Sin-Itiro Tomonaga →
nationality	Japanese →
nativeName	朝永振一郎 →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeYear	1965 →
notableWork	Relativistic formulation of quantum field theory → Super-many-time theory of quantum mechanics →
positionHeld	professor →
residence	Tokyo →
sharedNobelPrizeWith	Julian Schwinger → Richard Feynman →

Referenced by (21)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Tomonaga–Schwinger equation → quantum electrodynamics → quantum field theory →	developedBy
Paul Dirac → Yoshio Nishina →	influenced
Julian Schwinger → Richard Feynman →	sharedNobelPrizeWith
朝永振一郎 → 朝永振一郎 ("Shin’ichirō Tomonaga") →	別名
quantum electrodynamics →	awardedNobelPrizeTo
University of Tokyo →	hasNotableAlumni
Tokyo University of Education →	hasNotableAlumnus
Tomonaga →	hasNotableBearer
Tokyo University of Education →	hasNotableFaculty
Tokyo University of Education →	hasNotableScholar
Max Planck Medal →	hasRecipient
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga →	name
Tomonaga–Schwinger equation →	namedAfter
Nishina Laboratory →	notableResearcher
Dyson’s proof of equivalence of Feynman and Schwinger–Tomonaga formulations of QED →	relatedToPerson
Yoshio Nishina →	supervisedStudent