Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, March 31, 1906 July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Tomonaga in 1965
Born(1906-03-31)March 31, 1906
DiedJuly 8, 1979(1979-07-08) (aged 73)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Known forQuantum electrodynamics
Schwinger–Tomonaga equation
Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid
AwardsAsahi Prize (1946)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1964)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsLeipzig University
Institute for Advanced Study
Tokyo University of Education
RIKEN
University of Tokyo
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