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Tomonaga

American  
[taw-maw-nah-gah] / ˌtɔ mɔˈnɑ gɑ /

noun

  1. Shinichiro 1906–79, Japanese physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.


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Yet, his results — equivalent to more systematic, rigorously expounded mathematical techniques independently proposed by co-laureates Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — matched atomic-physics data beautifully.

From Nature • May 7, 2018

He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize with Julian Schwinger and S. I. Tomonaga for work in QED with its deep implications for particle physics.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This work culminated in the Nobel Prize being awarded to Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga in 1965.

From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 2013

Keizo Tomonaga, a virologist at Osaka University, discovered the borna virus DNA by accident.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2010

And although he shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for the theory of quantum electrodynamics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Feynman had an approach that was typically bizarre.

From Time Magazine Archive

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