Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger

by Jagdish Mehra, Kimball A. Milton, Kimball Milton

Book Overview

This is the first biography ever written on the distinguished physicist Julian Schwinger. Schwinger was one of the most important and influential scientists of the twentieth century. The list of his contributions is staggering, from his early work leading to the Schwinger action principle,
Euclidean quantum field theory, and the genesis of the standard model, to later valuable work on magnetic charge and the Casimir effect. He also shared the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198527454
• ISBN13: 9780198527459
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"