Climbing the Mountain

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 he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics. However, his contribution extended far beyond this. This biography describes the many strands of his research life.

Mehra and Milton provide a great deal of material from interviews and archival files and thus help give us a fuller picture of Schwinger. Perhaps their most important contribution is their account of the evolution of many of Schwinger's thoughts. [...] It does shed light on a many-faceted genius.

Autorentext
Jagdish Mehra has been University Distinguished Professor of Sciences and Humanities at the University of Houston, Texas for many years and also served as UNESCO-Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professor of Physics and The History of Science at Trieste and Paris. He has published extensively on the historical and conceptual development of modern physics and is the acclaimed biographer of 'The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman'. From Spring 1959 until Schwinger's death, Mehra remained his close friend. Kimball A. Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, where he leads the theoretical high-energy physics group. He has numerous publications in the field of quantum field theory. He was a student of Julian Schwinger at Harvard and was his postdoctorate associate at UCLA for nearly a decade.

Zusammenfassung
This is the first biography of Julian Schwinger, one of the great theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. A long-time colleague and collaborator of Richard Feynman, he was the joint winner with Feynman of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum electrodynamics. However his contribution extended far beyond this, and his life and achievements are chronicled in this book.

Inhalt
Preface; 1. A New York City Childhood; 2. Julian Schwinger at Columbia University; 3. Schwinger Goes to Berkeley; 4. During the Second World War; 5. Winding up at the Radiation Lab, Going to Harvard, and Marriage; 6. The Development of Quantum Electrodynamics Until 1947: The Historical Background of Julian Schwinger's Work on QED; 7. Quantum Electrodynamics and Julian Schwinger's Path to Fame; 8. Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feymann, and Dyson: The Triumph of Renormalization; 9. Green's Functions and the Dynamical Action Principle; 10. The World According to Stern and Gerlach; 11. Custodian of Quantum Field Theory; 12. Electroweak Unification and Foreshadowing of the Standard Model; 13. The Nobel Prize and the Last Years at Harvard; 14. Move to UCLA and Continuing Concerns; 15. Taking the Road Less Travelled By; 16. Diversions of a Gentle Genius; APPENDIX A: JULIAN SCHWINGER - LIST OF PUBLICATIONS; APPENDIX B: PH.D. STUDENTS OF JULIAN SCHWINGER; INDEX

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