Climbing the Mountain
Subtitle: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 690
ISBN-13: 9780198506584
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Theoretical methods; Physics (General); Science; Biography / Autobiography; Science/Mathematics; History; Physics; Scientists - General; Science / Physics; 1918-; Biography; Physicists; Schwinger, Julian Seymour,; United States
First sentence: 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.
Description: "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 Feynman, 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." "This biography describes the many strands of his research life, while tracing the personal life of this private and gentle genius."--Jacket.