Climbing the mountain. The scientific biography of Julian Schwinger (Q2782590)

Julian Schwinger (1918--1994), full professor at Harvard 1946, Nobel prize 1965 together with R. Feynman, was one of the leading founders of modern quantum field theory. Jagdish Mehra as a close friend and Kimball A. Milton as a former PhD student of Julian Schwinger wrote this comprehensive scientific biography. The authors thank a great number of scholars, collaborators, and friends of him they contacted to collect details of his life and thoughts.NEWLINENEWLINEThe biography is organized in 16 chapters describing different phases of his life and work. It involves not only the scientific facts but also other features of his life and thinking. Since both the authors are physicists the scientific results are also expressed in formulas and, moreover, not only the papers where these results are published but also the papers which were the sources of his research are quoted at the end of every chapter. 35 photographs show Julian Schwinger at important events of his life. The list of his publications and the list of his PhD students are given in the appendix. An Index of names and another of subjects are added.NEWLINENEWLINE This book is not only a document for the history of science but also an exciting literature for anybody interested in the life of a famous physicist.