Memories of Julian Schwinger

TL;DR

This paper offers personal recollections of Julian Schwinger, highlighting his early talents and career, based on unpublished memories from the author who knew him since their undergraduate days.

Contribution

It provides new, firsthand insights into Schwinger's youthful years and talents, supplementing existing biographies and analyses.

Findings

Unpublished personal recollections of Schwinger's early life

Highlights of Schwinger's remarkable talents as a young physicist

Unique perspective from the author's long-term acquaintance

Abstract

The career and accomplishments of Julian Schwinger, who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, have been reviewed in numerous books and articles. For this reason these Memories, which seek to convey a sense of Schwinger's remarkable talents as a physicist, concentrate primariy (though not entirely) on heretofore unpublished pertinent recollections of the youthful Schwinger by this writer, who first encountered Schwinger in 1934 when they both were undergraduates at the City College of New York.