Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | |
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Tomonaga in 1965 | |
| Born | March 31, 1906 |
| Died | July 8, 1979 (aged 73) Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | Kyoto Imperial University |
| Known for | Quantum electrodynamics Schwinger–Tomonaga equation Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid |
| Father | Tomonaga Sanjūrō |
| Awards | Asahi Prize (1946) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1964) Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo |
| Quantum field theory |
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| History |
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. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".