Schwinger
Americannoun
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In the electron's reference frame, the laser intensity appeared to be about 50% of the Schwinger limit, triggering nonlinear QED phenomena.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
In 1947 another eminent theorist, Julian Schwinger, worked out what was happening: the electron was being jostled by the photon.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023
He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Brooklyn College in 1949 at 18, then went to Harvard, where he studied under Julian Schwinger, a Nobel Prize laureate.
From New York Times • May 8, 2023
He was placed in an accelerated program at Townsend Harris High School, a magnet school in New York that also produced Nobel laureates Herbert Hauptman, a chemist; and Julian Schwinger, a physicist.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2017
George Schwanhart, a pupil of Caspar Lehmann, started glass-cutting at Ratisbon, and about 1690 Stephen Schmidt and Hermann Schwinger introduced the crafts of cutting and engraving glass in Nuremberg.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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