Talk:Julian Schwinger

message: This truly wretched article fails to mention Schwinger's great work that won him the Nobel Prize, namely he was the first person to accurately calculate the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron. This was as important for quantum electrodynamics as was Bethe's calculation of the Lamb Shift - and yet there is not even a hint of it here. These physics articles, written by mediocre graduate students without knowledge of history OR physics, are the laughing stock of Wikipedia. --2601:C0:C77F:C810:F92C:5039:12AF:9A18 (talk) 04:27, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uh, magnetic moment of the electron? 

message: Hi, I think there is a misunderstanding at work here. The term to "immigrate" is used in relation to a country to mean that a person relocates to that country. To "emigrate" is used in relation to a country to mean that someone leaves that country. Therefore, no matter from which perspective it is viewed, the term is clear for international readers, and the meaning of the sentence is that the person moved to the US from another place. Moreover, to "migrate" does not have the exact same meaning, and, while it not wrong to use the term, it is less precise in this situation.  Silvrous Talk 10:13, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, apparently I was indeed wrong about the "emigrate to" part. Sorry about that, I'm changing back to your version. Still, I think you are reading too much into the perspective of the reader, there is definitely no "disrespect" to the reader involved in the use of one word. Silvrous Talk 13:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

text: You can always change it yourself back ( WP:BOLD ). I looked up other articles, and could only find either "emigrate", such as in Albert Einstein or "immigrate", such as Arnold Schwarzenegger. But I was wrong in the beginning, the words can be used interchangeably with only a difference in nuance, so I guess you could say that they migrated. Silvrous Talk 15:53, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

text: I don't even try discussing etymology with English speakers anymore. I always get the answer: "Yes but we've been using this word this way for years. <insert proof by google here> Why should we bother what a word actually meant once?" Evidently people can now push a pedal with their foot "manually", and even NASA can do afocal "projection". I think I'll stick to German and French for scientific precision. :-( --BjKa (talk) 15:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is emigrate - hands down. The country of subject / author / reader is neither here nor there. The narrative perspective is on the decision to move away from the country one was born and raised in. Immigrate is not used as a verb much (what with tasty synonyms such as "flooding" [our country] lie close at hand) although the noun immigrant is used a lot. It is the other way around with emigrate, where the verb dominates and the noun emigrant is less often encountered. This is because the country of origin is not stuck with these people and has little cause to discuss them (perhaps in the context of an emigrant's seeing-off party). Be glad English only has this sort of kerfuffle going on when changing countries. The French language has similar complications whenever you change houses, and you have to consider whether the move is viewed from the old or from the new dwelling. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:D890:E3CE:467E:3780 (talk) 19:26, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   His parents emigrated from Poland to the U.S. Not sure what the fuzz was all about. Nerd271 (talk) 03:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immigrate versus migrate 

message: Schwinger discovered that neutrinos come in multiple varieties...
I don't think the evidence is that compelling for this statement, but I don't judge myself competent enough to unilaterally edit this out.  Supporters of this statement should offer evidence.  DMGualtieri (talk) 13:43, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrinos 

message: no talk how his death related to his work? Juror1 (talk) 06:31, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: well, when he died he stopped adding to his work. he also stopped defending things like cold fusion. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:D890:E3CE:467E:3780 (talk) 19:14, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death