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  • Julian Seymour Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field theory, including a differential form of path integration, and the... full article at wikipedia

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  • 1965
  • for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
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