Julian Schwinger

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Julian Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory.

Aliases (2)
  • Julian Seymour Schwinger ×1
  • Schwinger ×1

Statements (62)
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instanceOf academic
human
physicist
theoretical physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
awardReceived Albert Einstein Award
Dirac Medal
National Medal of Science
Nobel Prize in Physics
citizenship United States of America
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1918-02-12
dateOfDeath 1994-07-16
doctoralAdvisor Isidor Isaac Rabi
doctoralStudent Benjamin Roy Mottelson
Kenneth Wilson
Roy Glauber
Sheldon Glashow
Sidney Coleman
Walter Gilbert
educatedAt City College of New York
Columbia University
employer Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Purdue University
University of California, Los Angeles
era 20th-century physics
ethnicGroup Jewish American
familyName Schwinger
fieldOfWork nuclear physics
particle physics
quantum electrodynamics
quantum field theory
theoretical physics
fullName Julian Seymour Schwinger
givenName Julian
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
NobelPrizeCategory Physics
NobelPrizeMotivation for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
NobelPrizeYear 1965
notableConcept Schwinger effect
Schwinger model
Schwinger–Dyson equations
source theory
notableFor Schwinger effect
Schwinger–Dyson equations
development of renormalization in quantum field theory
foundational contributions to quantum electrodynamics
operator methods in quantum field theory
source theory
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
placeOfDeath California
Los Angeles
religion Judaism
sharedNobelPrizeWith Richard Feynman
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
taughtAt Harvard University
University of California, Los Angeles


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