Julian Schwinger
- Born: February 12, 1918 (New York, New York)
- Died: July 16, 1994 (Los Angeles, California)
Education
- 1936: AB, Columbia University
- 1939: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1939–1940: University of California, Berkeley, NRC Fellow
- 1940–1941: University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate
- 1941–1943: Purdue University, Instructor to Assistant Professor
- 1943–1943: Manhattan Project, Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Researcher
- 1943–1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Researcher
- 1945–1966: Harvard University, Associate Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1966–1972: Harvard University, Higgins Professor of Physics
- 1972–1980: University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Physics
- 1980–1994: University of California, Los Angeles, University Professor
Other Positions
- 1961–1961: University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1949: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1964: National Medal of Science
- 1965: Nobel Prize in Physics
Archival Resources
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Los Angeles, California
Online Finding Aid
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Paul C. Martin and Sheldon L. Glashow, "Julian Schwinger, 1918-1994", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Silvan S. Schweber, Q.E.D. and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
Y. Jack Ng, ed., Julian Schwinger: The Physicist, the Teacher, and the Man (River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1996)
Jagdish Mehra and Kimball A. Milton, Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Kimball A. Milton, "In Appreciation: Julian Schwinger: From Nuclear Physics and Quantum Electrodynamics to Source Theory and Beyond," Physics in Perspective 5 (2003): 124-126
