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
Falcke and his team suggest that experiments could focus on observing the Schwinger effect, which also remains theoretical at this point, to potentially bolster their own claims.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 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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