biography
| name: |
Schwinger, Julian S(eymour)
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pronunciation:
[shwingger]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918–94)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He taught and performed research at several American institutions before becoming a professor at Harvard (1945–75). His renormalization technique, a mathematical revision of quantum electrodynamics, earned him a share of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics. He joined the University of California, Los Angeles (1975) and continued to make advances in electromagnetic theory and theoretical particle physics. |
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