Died 1979-07-08.
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Shinichiro Tomonaga
Shinichiro Tomonaga , 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".
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science · Japanese physicist (1906-1979) · theoretical physicist · professor · physicist · researcher · also Shinichiro Tomonaga, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Tomonaga
Born 31 March 1906 · Died 8 July 1979 · Q184563
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class (1976).
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1965).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, with Julian Schwinger and Richard P
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1963· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1963).
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1955· 1 entry
Took the leadership in establishing the Institute for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo
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1952· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Culture (1952).
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1952).
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And the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1976
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1950· 1 entry
Published “Remarks on Bloch's Method of Sound Waves applied to Many-Fermion Problems” in Progress of Theoretical Physics — cited 1,427 times.
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1949· 1 entry
Was invited by Robert Oppenheimer to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
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1948· 1 entry
And his students re-examined a 1939 paper by Sidney Dancoff that attempted, but failed, to show that the infinite quantities that arise in quantum electrodynamics (QED) can be canceled with each other
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Asahi Prize (1946).
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1937· 1 entry
While working at Leipzig University (Leipzig), he collaborated with the research group of Werner Heisenberg
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1931· 1 entry
After graduate school, he joined Nishina's group in RIKEN
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-03-31.
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