Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger'... a through and comprehensive account of Schwinger's life and work... a valuable testament to the life and legacy of Julian Schwinger' Physics World'... the first full-length biography of Julian Schwinger... scholarly and well done. The influence of Julian Schwinger on the physics of his time has been profound' Cern CourierThis is the first biography of Julian Schwinger, one of the great theoretical physicists of this century. A long-time colleague and collaborator of Richard Feynman, he was the joint winner with Feynman of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum electrodynamics. However his contribution extended far beyond this, and his life and achievements are chronicled in this book. |
Contents
A New York City childhood | 1 |
Julian Schwinger at Columbia University | 22 |
Schwinger goes to Berkeley | 54 |
During the Second World War | 90 |
Winding up at the Radiation Lab going to Harvard | 134 |
Quantum electrodynamics and Julian Schwingers path | 208 |
the triumph | 251 |
Greens functions and the dynamical action principle | 298 |
Electroweak unification and foreshadowing of | 411 |
The Nobel Prize and the last years at Harvard | 445 |
Move to UCLA and continuing concerns | 481 |
Taking the road less traveled | 528 |
The diversions of a gentle genius | 567 |
Appendices | 627 |
B Ph D Students of Julian Schwinger | 639 |
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The world according to Stern and Gerlach | 337 |
Custodian of quantum field theory | 371 |
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Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger K. A. Milton,Jagdish Mehra Limited preview - 2000 |
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