| Sin-Itiro Tomonaga  Born: 31-Mar-1906
Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
Died: 8-Jul-1979
Location of death: Tokyo, Japan
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Quantum electrodynamics Father: Sanjuro Tomonaga (professor at Kyeto University)
Mother: Hide Tomonaga
Wife: Ryoko Sekiguchi (m. 1940, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Atsushi
Son: Makoto
High School: Third Higher School, Kyoto
University: BS Physics, Kyoto Imperial University (1929)
University: PhD, Tokyo Imperial University (1939)
Professor: Tokyo University of Education (1941-)
Administrator: President, Tokyo University of Education (1956-62)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1965 (with Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman)
National Academy of Sciences
Author of books:
Quantum Mechanics (1962, physics)
Development of Quantum Electrodynamics: Personal Recollections (1966, physics)
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