Readership: Physicists, in particular theoretical physicists; historians and philosophers of science.
Jagdish Mehra and Kimball Milton, Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma
Review(s) from previous edition"... a through and comprehensive account of Schwinger's life and work... a valuable testament to the life and legacy of Julian Schwinger - Lowell Brown, Physics World
"... the first full-length biography of Julian Schwinger ... scholarly and well done. The influence of Julian Schwinger on the physics of his time has been profound. " - Robert Finkelstein, CERN Courier
"Mehra and Milton provide a great deal of material from interviews and archival files and thus help give us a fuller picture of Schwinger. Perhaps their most important contribution is their account of the evolution of many of Schwinger's thoughts. [...] It does shed light on a many-faceted genius." - Tian Yu Cao, Physics Today
Preface 1: A New York City Childhood 2: Julian Schwinger at Columbia University 3: Schwinger Goes to Berkeley 4: During the Second World War 5: Winding up at the Radiation Lab, Going to Harvard, and Marriage 6: The Development of Quantum Electrodynamics Until 1947: The Historical Background of Julian Schwinger's Work on QED 7: Quantum Electrodynamics and Julian Schwinger's Path to Fame 8: Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feymann, and Dyson: The Triumph of Renormalization 9: Green's Functions and the Dynamical Action Principle 10: The World According to Stern and Gerlach 11: Custodian of Quantum Field Theory 12: Electroweak Unification and Foreshadowing of the Standard Model 13: The Nobel Prize and the Last Years at Harvard 14: Move to UCLA and Continuing Concerns 15: Taking the Road Less Travelled By 16: Diversions of a Gentle Genius Appendix A: Julian Schwinger - List of Publications Appendix B: Ph.D. Students of Julian Schwinger Index
