Julian Schwinger 1918-1994 (2008) [pdf]

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/schwinger-julian.pdf

by snake117 • 11 years ago

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guybrushT• 11 years ago

I didn't know about Julian Schwinger's life before this. Two of the many awe-inspiring paragraphs from the text:

Bethe describes his meeting with Schwinger: "I entirely forgot that he [Schwinger] was a sophomore 17 years of age. . . His knowledge of quantum electrodynamics is certainly equal to my own, and I can hardly understand how he could acquire that knowledge in less than two years and almost all by himself.” Bethe concludes that “Schwinger will develop into one of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists if properly guided, i.e., if his curriculum is largely left to his own free choice."

"he published his reformulation of quantum electrodynamics in three long papers in Physical Review, Quantum Electrodynamics I (1948), II (1949), and III (1949). They include several of the results for which he, Richard Feynman, and Sin-Itiro Tomanaga were eventually awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics."

A life well led.

Julian Schwinger 1918-1994 (2008) [pdf]

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