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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Quantum electrodynamics; quantum field theory

1965 Nobel Prize in Physics

2 questions

  1. Onset and intensity of imperfect oscillations in multi-split-anode magnetrons: the quantitative theory missing from Tomonaga (1948)

  2. Exact canonical collective-coordinate theory of density-wave motion: the unresolved completion of Tomonaga's 1955 elementary theory of quantum-mechanical collective motion

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