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The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes mistakenly called the Albert Einstein Medal because it was accompanied with a gold medal) was an award in theoretical physics, given periodically from 1951 to 1979, that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences.
The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes called the Albert Einstein Medal because it is accompanied with a gold medal) is an award in theoretical physics, established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences.
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Early life and career
Julian Seymour Schwinger was born in New York City, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Belle (née Rosenfeld) and Benjamin Schwinger, a garment manufacturer, who had emigrated from Poland to the United States. Both his father and his mother's parents were prosperous clothing manufacturers, although the family business declined after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The family followed the Orthodox Jewishtradition. Julian's older brother Harold Schwinger was born in 1911, seven years before Julian who...
Career
After having worked with Oppenheimer, Schwinger's first regular academic appointment was at Purdue University in 1941. While on leave from Purdue, he worked at the MIT Radiation Laboratory instead of at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. He provided theoretical support for the development of radar. After the war, Schwinger left Purdue for Harvard University, where he taught from 1945 to 1974. In 1966 he became the Eugene Higgins professor of physics at Harvard. Schwinger...
Schwinger and Feynman
As a famous physicist, Schwinger was often compared to another legendary physicist of his generation, Richard Feynman. Schwinger was more formally inclined and favored symbolic manipulations in quantum field theory. He worked with local field operators, and found relations between them, and he felt that physicists should understand the algebra of local fields, no matter how paradoxical it was. By contrast, Feynman was more intuitive, believing that the physics could be extracted entirely from...
Books 1. Milton KA, A Quantum Legacy: Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger, World Scientific, 2000. 2. Milton KA, Schwinger J, Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators, Springer, 2006. 3. Schwinger J, Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time, Dover, 2002. 4. Schwinger J, Particles, Sources, and Fields, 3 vols,...
Mehra, Jagdish, and Milton, Kimball A. (2000) Climbing the Mountain: the scientific biography of Julian Schwinger. Oxford University Press.Milton, Kimball (2007). "Julian Schwinger: Nuclear Physics, the Radiation Laboratory, Renormalized QED, Source Theory, and Beyond". Physics in Perspective. 9 (1): 70–114. arXiv:physics/0610054. Bib...Schweber, Silvan S. (1994). QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03327-3.Ng, Y. Jack, ed. (1996) Julian Schwinger: The Physicist, the Teacher, and the Man. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 981-02-2531-8.O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Julian Schwinger", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsJan 6, 2024 · The Albert Einstein Award was an award in theoretical physics, given periodically from 1951 to 1979, that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences. It was endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einstein's 70th birthday.
The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes mistakenly called the Albert Einstein Medal because it was accompanied with a gold medal) was an award in theoretical physics that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences.
Check winners and nominations of 1951 Albert Einstein Award.
Albert Einstein (left) presents the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in natural sciences to Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel (second from right) and American physicist Julian Schwinger (right), with Lewis L. Stauss looking on, March 14, 1951.
