AKA Julian Seymour Schwinger

Born: 12-Feb-1918
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 16-Jul-1994
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Quantum electrodynamics

Father: Benjamin Schwinger (dress manufacturer)
Mother: Belle Rosenfeld
Wife: Clarice Carro (m. 1947)

    University: City College of New York
    University: PhD, Columbia University (1939)
    Scholar: University of California at Berkeley (1939-41)
    Teacher: Instructor, Purdue University (WWII)
    Scholar: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WWII)
    Professor: Harvard University (1945-74)
    Professor: University of California at Los Angeles (1972-94)

    American Physical Society
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    American Civil Liberties Union
    Federation of American Scientists
    National Academy of Sciences
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1965 (with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Richard Feynman)
    National Medal of Science 1964

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