The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
Awarded on: 1965-10-21
"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
Affiliations:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
Julian Schwinger
Born: 1918-02-12 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Biography
Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities.