Julian Seymour Schwinger

1918 - 1994

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Schwinger formulated quantum electrodynamics and thus reconciled quantum mechanics with Einstein's special theory of relativity.
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List of References (12 books/articles)

A Poster of Julian Schwinger

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Honours awarded to Julian Schwinger
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AMS Gibbs Lecturer1960
Nobel Prize1965

Other Web sites
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. Nobel prizes site (A biography of Schwinger and his Nobel prize presentation speech)
  1. University of California
  2. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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