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Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger. By: Kassie Boysen. Biography. Born on February 12 th 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

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Julian Schwinger

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  1. Julian Schwinger By: Kassie Boysen

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. Books • 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

  8. 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

  9. bibliography • alibris." alibris. Web. 24 Feb 2010. <http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&wauth=Julian+Schwinger&siteID=1JSk6CbYEf0-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>.

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