The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Julian Schwinger
Title:
Professor of Physics
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
1994
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1964
Citation:
"For [his] profound work on the fundamental problems of quantum field theory, and for many contributions to and lucid expositions of nuclear physics and electrodynamics."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.
Nobel Laureate:
Physics, 1965