Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Born March 31, 1906, Tomonaga built his career as a physicist in Japan through the middle of the twentieth century. His fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics ran parallel to breakthroughs by Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger, though each arrived by different routes. The three shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions that carried deep consequences for elementary particle physics. He died July 8, 1979.