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"Julian Schwinger deserves to be remembered as a great scientist for his many brilliant scientific achievements. We are very lucky to have this authentic portrait of Schwinger by Jagdish Mehra (with Kimball A. Milton), to balance Mehra's biography of Feynman [The Beat of a Different Drum, Oxford, 1994]; in it we see Schwinger as he was, a many-sided genius a human being with very great gifts."--Freeman J. Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
"Climbing the Mountain is far more than Julian Schwinger's scientific biography. It reconstructs his times and the evolution of his thoughts, tells of his interactions with students and colleagues, and shows the enormous impact he has had on the substance, practice, and practitioners of modern physics. Every reader will concur with the sentiment of his widow: 'The world that knew him will never be the same.'"--Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University
"This magnificent book brilliantly recounts Schwinger's ascent up the mountain of quantum electrodynamics, and his previous and subsequent scientific career which, to a remarkable degree, defined theoretical physics for decades. Not only does this beautiful book treat Schwinger's scientific biography, but all the various aspects of his gifted life and glorious career; it is a definitive account of Julian Schwinger's life and work."--Willis E. Lamb, Jr., University of Arizona
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This is the first biography ever written on the distinguished physicist Julian Schwinger. Schwinger was one of the most important and influential scientists of the twentieth century. The list of his contributions is staggering, from his early work leading to the Schwinger action principle, Euclidean quantum field theory, and the genesis of the standard model, to later valuable work on magnetic charge and the Casimir effect. He also shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman. However, even among physicists, understanding and recognition of his work remains limited. This book by Mehra and Milton, both of whom were personally acquainted with Schwinger, presents a unique portrait that sheds light on both his personality and his work through discussion of his lasting influence on science. Anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of one of the great physicists of this century needs to read this book.
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"Julian Schwinger deserves to be remembered as a great scientist for his many brilliant scientific achievements. We are very lucky to have this authentic portrait of Schwinger by Jagdish Mehra (with Kimball A. Milton), to balance Mehra's biography of Feynman [The Beat of a Different Drum, Oxford, 1994]; in it we see Schwinger as he was, a many-sided genius a human being with very great gifts."--Freeman J. Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
"Climbing the Mountain is far more than Julian Schwinger's scientific biography. It reconstructs his times and the evolution of his thoughts, tells of his interactions with students and colleagues, and shows the enormous impact he has had on the substance, practice, and practitioners of modern physics. Every reader will concur with the sentiment of his widow: 'The world that knew him will never be the same.'"--Sheldon L. Glashow, Harvard University
"This magnificent book brilliantly recounts Schwinger's ascent up the mountain of quantum electrodynamics, and his previous and subsequent scientific career which, to a remarkable degree, defined theoretical physics for decades. Not only does this beautiful book treat Schwinger's scientific biography, but all the various aspects of his gifted life and glorious career; it is a definitive account of Julian Schwinger's life and work."--Willis E. Lamb, Jr., University of Arizona
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This is the first biography ever written on the distinguished physicist Julian Schwinger. Schwinger was one of the most important and influential scientists of the twentieth century. The list of his contributions is staggering, from his early work leading to the Schwinger action principle, Euclidean quantum field theory, and the genesis of the standard model, to later valuable work on magnetic charge and the Casimir effect. He also shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman. However, even among physicists, understanding and recognition of his work remains limited. This book by Mehra and Milton, both of whom were personally acquainted with Schwinger, presents a unique portrait that sheds light on both his personality and his work through discussion of his lasting influence on science. Anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of one of the great physicists of this century needs to read this book.
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Julian Seymour Schwinger was born on 12 February 1918 ('just five score and nine years after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln') in New York City into a middle class family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quantum dynamical principle, quantum action principle, ninth baryon, nucleonic charge, statistical atom, electroweak synthesis, vacuum persistence amplitude, operator field theory, covariant calculation, renormalized quantum electrodynamics, additional magnetic moment, measurement algebra, conventional field theory, quantum kinematics, tensor forces, radiation lab, meson theory, vacuum polarization, covariant method, electromagnetic mass, memorial session, joint student, anomalous magnetic moment, divergence difficulties, quantized fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julian Schwinger, New York, Physical Review, Los Angeles, Jagdish Mehra, City College, Los Alamos, Richard Feynman, David Saxon, Clarice Schwinger, Van Vleck, Bel Air, University of California, United States, World Scientific, Hans Bethe, Columbia University, World War, National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Harold Levine, Townsend Harris, George Green, Department of Special Collections, Freeman Dyson New!
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Julian Seymour Schwinger was born on 12 February 1918 ('just five score and nine years after the birthday of Abraham Lincoln') in New York City into a middle class family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quantum dynamical principle, quantum action principle, ninth baryon, nucleonic charge, statistical atom, electroweak synthesis, vacuum persistence amplitude, operator field theory, covariant calculation, renormalized quantum electrodynamics, additional magnetic moment, measurement algebra, conventional field theory, quantum kinematics, tensor forces, radiation lab, meson theory, vacuum polarization, covariant method, electromagnetic mass, memorial session, joint student, anomalous magnetic moment, divergence difficulties, quantized fields Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julian Schwinger, New York, Physical Review, Los Angeles, Jagdish Mehra, City College, Los Alamos, Richard Feynman, David Saxon, Clarice Schwinger, Van Vleck, Bel Air, University of California, United States, World Scientific, Hans Bethe, Columbia University, World War, National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Harold Levine, Townsend Harris, George Green, Department of Special Collections, Freeman Dyson New!
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- The Second World War by A. W. Purdue in Table of Contents, page 90, and page 96
- Discontinuities in Waveguides (Documents on Modern Physics) by J. Schwinger on page 118, and page 300
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. A. M. Dirac on page 68, and Index
- Semiclassical Theory of Atoms (Lecture Notes in Physics) by B. G. Englert on page 565
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey on page 617
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- Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education by John L. Rudolph in Back Matter
- Einstein, Physics and Reality by Jagdish Mehra in Front Matter
- Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators by Kimball A. Milton in Spine
- The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything by Paul Halpern in Back Matter
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