Julian Schwinger
By: Kassie Boysen
Biography
• Born on February 12th 1918 in New York
• Became professional physicist at the age
of sixteen
• In 1939 he received his Ph.D. degree
• National Research at University of
California, Berkeley
• He taught elementary physics to
engineering students at Purdue University.
Biography
• Became Associate Professor at Harvard
University.
• Then became a full Professor
• A year later married Clarice Carrol of
Boston
• Died on July 16th, 1994
• At the age 76
Contributions
• Began to think of nuclear physics as
language of electrical engineering
• First approached electromagnetic radar
problems as a nuclear physicist
• Being conscious of the large microwave
powers available
• Began to think about electron accelerators
• Led to questions of radiation by electrons
in magnetic fields
Contributions
• Later on he worked in a number of
directions
• His primary focus was theoretical
questions
• He was mainly pleased by an anticipation
• Two different neutrinos associated
• Also respectively, with the electron and the
moon
Award and honors
• The first Einstein Prize (1951)
• The U.S National Medal of Science (1964)
• Honorary D.Sc, degrees from Purdue
University (1961)
• And also Harvard University (1962)
• And the Nature of Light Award of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences (1949)
Books
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Einstein’s Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time
Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics
Particles, Sources, and Fields, Volume 1-3
Classical Electrodynamics
Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods,
Waveguides and Accelerators: Including
Seminal Paper of Julian Schwinger
Books
• Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of
Atomic Measurements
• Quantum kinematics and dynamics
• Particles and Sources
• Particles, sources, and fields (Vol. 1and 2)
• Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics
• Discontinuities in waveguides; notes on
lectures by Julian Schwinger
bibliography
• alibris." alibris. Web. 24 Feb 2010.
<http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&
wauth=Julian+Schwinger&siteID=1JSk6C
bYEf0-Unq4UZOpJVfmEwCUNYbUww>.
• Schwinger, Julian. "Julian Schwinger
biography." Nobelprize . Les Prix Nobel,
Web. 24 Feb 2010.
<http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics
/laureates/1965/schwinger-bio.html>.