Julian Schwinger Ph.D.
Julian Schwinger Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
National Medal of Science – Physical Sciences 1964
Nobel co-recipients Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Richard P. Feynman
Name: Julian Schwinger
Birth: 12 February 1918, New York, NY, USA
Death: 16 July 1994, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”
Subject: quantum electrodynamics, quantum mechanics
Portion of Cash: 1/3
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Nat’l Medal – Physical Sciences
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: Professor of Physics
Affiliation: Harvard University Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender: Male
Year Deceased: 1994
Award Discipline: Physical Sciences
Award Year: 1964
Citation: “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.”
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.