Climbing The Mountain. The Scientific Biography Of Julian Schwinger - Couverture rigide

Mehra, Jagdish; Milton, Kimball-A

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198506589 ISBN 13 : 9780198506584

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Julian Schwinger was one of the leading theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His contributions are as important, and as pervasive, as those of Richard Feymnan, with whom (and with Sin-itiro Tomonaga) he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics. Yet, while Feynman is universally recognized as a cultural icon, Schwinger is little known even to many within the physics community. This biography aims to describe Schwinger's life and research contributions to a wider audience. As a youth, Julian Schwinger began as a nuclear physicist, turning to classical electrodynamics after World War II. In the years after the war, he was the first to renormalize quantum electrodynamics. Subsequently, he presented the most complete formulation of quantum field theory and laid the foundations for the electroweak synthesis of Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam, and he made fundamental contributions to the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance, to many-body theory, and to quantum optics. He developed a unique approach to quantum mechanics, measurement algebra, and a general quantum action principle. His discoveries include, Feynman's, parameters and 'Glauber's' coherent states; in later years he also developed an alternative to operator field theory, which he called Source Theory, which reflected his profound phenomenological bent. His late work on the Thomas-Fermi model of atoms and on the Casimir effect continues to be an inspiration to a new generation of physicists. This biography describes the many strands of his research life, while tracing the personal life of this private and gentle genius.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jagdish Mehra has been, for a long time, University Distinguished Professor of Sciences and Humanities at the University of Houston, Texas, and also served as UNESCO-Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professor of Physics and The History of Science, at Trieste and Paris. He has published extensively on the historical and conceptual development of modern physics, and is the author of The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. From Spring 1959 until Schwinger's death Mehra remained his close friend. Kimball A. Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, where he leads the theoretical high-energy physics group. He has numerous publications in the area of nonperturbative quantum field theory. He was a student of Julian Schwinger at Harvard, and was his postdoctoral associate at UCLA for nearly a decade.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198506589
• ISBN 13: 9780198506584
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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