Abstract
In this series of articles the early life and work of the young Julian Schwinger are explored. In the present article, we discuss Schwinger's winding up his work at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, being offered a tenured professorship at Harvard University, getting married, and settling down into a highly productive teaching and research career.
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Taped conversations and interviews by Jagdish Mehra with Clarice Schwinger in Bel Air, CA, March 1988.
Taped conversations and interviews by Jagdish Mehra with Julian Schwinger in Bel Air, CA, March 1988.
Interview with David Saxon by K. A. Milton, 29 July 1997.
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REFERENCES TO JULIAN SWINGER's PAPERS
On the interaction of several electrons, unpublished (1934).
On radiation by electrons in a betatron (1945); Transcribed by M. A. Furman, preprint LBNL-39088, July (1996).
Polarization of neutrons by resonance scattering in helium, Phys. Rev. 69, 681 (1946).
Electron orbits in the synchrotron (with D. Saxon), Phys. Rev. 69, 702 (1946).
Electron radiation in high energy accelerators, Phys. Rev. 70, 798 (1946).
A variational principle for scattering problems, Phys. Rev. 72, 742 (1947).
A note on saturation in microwave Spectroscopy ( with R. Karplus), Phys. Rev. 73, 10290 (1948).
On tensor forces and the variation-iteration method (with H. Feshbach and J. Eisenstein), Phys. Rev. 74, 1223 (1948).
On the classical radiation of accelerated electrons, Phys. Rev. 75, 1912 (1949).
On the charge independence of nuclear forces, Phys. Rev. 78, 135 (1950).
Variational principles for scattering Processes. I (with B. Lippmann), Phys. Rev. 79, 469 (1950).
On a phenomenological Neutron-proton interaction (with H. Feshbach), Phys. Rev. 84, 194 (1951).
On high energy nucleon scattering and Isobars ( with R. B. Raphael), Phys. Rev. 90, 373 (1953).
The quantum correction in the radiation by energetic accelerated electrons, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 40, 132 (1954).
Discontinuities in Wave Guides (with D. Saxon) (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1969).
Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics (Benjamin, New York, 1970); reprinted with minor revisions by Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, in 1991).
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Mehra, J., Milton, K.A. & Rembiesa, P. The Young Julian Schwinger. V. Winding Up at the Radiation Lab, Going to Harvard, and Marriage. Foundations of Physics 29, 1119–1162 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018841800257
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