Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979) · Japan · Scientists · Died at 73
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Something wrong?He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for cracking quantum electrodynamics - the theory of how light and matter talk to each other at the smallest scale - work that reshaped how physicists understand elementary particles.
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, Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.
...a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.
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Father: Tomonaga SanjūrōAbout this person
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.
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