Julian Schwinger
Julian Schwinger · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-founder of quantum electrodynamics (QED), Nobel Prize 1965
1918, New York City, United States — 1994, Los Angeles, California, United States
United States (New York · Harvard · UCLA)
Julian Schwinger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-founder of quantum electrodynamics (QED), Nobel Prize 1965
A child prodigy from a Jewish family in New York, Schwinger earned his doctorate at Columbia and became one of the youngest full professors at Harvard. He developed a rigorous renormalized formulation of quantum electrodynamics (QED), taming the infinities in calculations of how light and matter interact, and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Feynman and Tomonaga. His mathematical methods shaped much of modern theoretical physics.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Physicist; co-founder of quantum electrodynamics (QED), Nobel Prize 1965
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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