Awards & Winners

Julian Schwinger

Date of Birth 12-February-1918
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Julian Seymour Schwinger
Profession Physicist, Theoretical Physicist
Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a professor in the physics department at UCLA. Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field theory, including a variational approach, and the equations of motion for quantum fields. He developed the first electroweak model, and the first example of confinement in 1+1 dimensions. He is responsible for the theory of multiple neutrinos, Schwinger terms, and the theory of the spin 3/2 field.

Awards by Julian Schwinger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Julian Schwinger.

1965


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles)

1964


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For [his] profound work on the fundamental problems of quantum field theory, and for many contributions to and lucid expositions of nuclear physics and electrodynamics.)