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Schwinger

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[shwing-ger] / ˈʃwɪŋ gər /

noun

  1. Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.


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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

During this period, he spoke to, collaborated with or attended lectures by many other leading scientists, including Edward Teller, Julian Schwinger and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

From Washington Post Feb. 28, 2020

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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