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JULIAN SCHWINGER: THE PHYSICIST, THE TEACHER, AND THE MAN
edited by Yee Jack Ng (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
In the post-quantum-mechanics era, few physicists, if any, have matched Julian Schwinger in contributions to and influence on the development of physics. A deep and provocative thinker, Schwinger left his indelible mark on all areas of theoretical physics; an eloquent lecturer and immensely successful mentor, he was gentle, intensely private, and known for being "modest about everything except his physics". This book is a collection of talks in memory of him by some of his contemporaries and his former students: A Klein, F Dyson, B DeWitt, W Kohn, D Saxon, P C Martin, K Johnson, S Deser, R Finkelstein, Y J Ng, H Feshbach, L Brown, S Glashow, K A Milton, and C N Yang. From it, one can get a glimpse of Julian Schwinger, the physicist, the teacher, and the man. Altogether, this book is a must for all physicists, physics students, and others who are interested in great legends.
Contents:
- Recollections of Julian Schwinger (A Klein)
- Schwinger's
Response to the Award of an Honorary Degree at Nottingham
- Schwinger's "The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I" (F Dyson)
- The Uses and Implications of Curved-Spacetime Propagators: A Personal View (B DeWitt)
- Overview of Density Functional Theory (W Kohn)
- Julian Schwinger Memorial Tribute (D Saxon)
- Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (P C Martin)
- Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (K Johnson)
- Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (S Deser)
- Julian Schwinger: The QED Period at Michigan and the Source Theory Period at UCLA (R Finkelstein)
- Schwinging a Sorcerer's Wand: Julian and I (Y J Ng)
- Julian Schwinger — Reminiscences and Nuclear Physics (H Feshbach)
- An Important Schwinger Legacy: Theoretical Tools (L Brown)
- The Road to Electroweak Unification (S Glashow)
- Julian Schwinger: Source Theory and the UCLA Years — from Magnetic Charge to the Casimir Effect (K A Milton)
- Julian Schwinger (C N Yang)
Readership: Graduate students in physics and physicists.
"This is a very interesting book about Julian Schwinger from many very different view points."
C N Yang, Nobel Laureate
SUNY, Stony Brook,1996 |
"This book gives special insights into one of the great minds of 20th century theoretical physics."
Frank Close
Rutherford Appleton Lab., 1996 |
"... it provides a fascinating and inspiring insight into the life and work of one of the true giants of theoretical physics. This is a book many physicists will want to read."
T W B Kibble
Imperial College, 1996 |
"It is a nice collection of reminiscences by his close friends. I very much enjoyed reading it."
T Eguchi
Univ. of Tokyo, 1996 |
"Many of the contributions make fascinating reading."
"There are two valuable appendices as well: a list of Schwinger's doctoral students and his updated publication list ... The articles are varied in slant, but all are delightful ... One picks up interesting and varying insights from the different contributions here."
Sam Treiman
Physics Today, 1996 (USA) |
| 212pp |
Pub. date: Jan 1996 |
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