Shin'ichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist who received the Nobel physics prize with Feynmann and Schwinger in 1965 for their renormalization theory. He was graduated from Kyoto University (his father was a philosophy professor there) , but stimulated by Yoshio Nishina, moved to Riken in Tokyo and studied under Nishina. After the war, he published his work during the war in English papers (Oppenhemer encouraged this, and later invited Tomonaga to Princeton) , which presented the same results as Feynmann-Schwinger's.
On his return home from Princeton, Tomonaga began to get involved in politics of science. He was involved in Pugwash conferences; he served as the president of Tokyo University of Education, and as the president of Science Council of Japan. He was almost finishing his last book What is Physics? when he died in 1979.
To Tomonaga Page in RIKEN//To Tomonaga Page in the Nobel Foundation
BACK TO TOMONAGA PICTURE//BACK TO GALLERY INDEX