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...M.I.T. that Schwinger developed his owlish habits. The noise and bustle of the Radiation Laboratory was so intense during the day, that he preferred to work at night. He often worked from midnight to dawn--"there were fewer people around then, just the scrub women...
...science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered on that subject, which, as he said, "pretty well covered the field up to that time...
...Schwinger first went to City College in New York. After two years he switched to Columbia and received a Ph.D. in physics at the age of twenty-one. After receiving his degree, he went to Stanford for two years to work as Oppenheimer's research assistant. He taught at Purdue for a year, and then worked on radar at M.I.T. during the war. He came to Harvard in 1946 as an associate professor. A year later, at the age of twenty-nine, Harvard advanced him to the rank of full professor. He is married and drives his cadillac to class...
...Schwinger worked late, he began early. At the age of seventeen he published his first paper in the Physical Review. Since then, he has been contributing constantly, delving into topics of higher physics. In his own highly specialized, creative field, Schwinger is almost alone; there are only a handful of theoretical physicists of his prolificy in the world...
Although he has won several prizes for his past work, the National Academy Prize, in 1949, the first Einstein prize in 1951, a medal from Columbia in 1951 ("They were supposed to give me an honorary degree, but I was too young"), Schwinger believes that his present work will be the most significant. To a layman he can explain it only in generalities. The gist of his effort is to force modern physics to a showdown. The present physical theories are so complicated that they need an enormous amount of experimental work to check their validity. Schwinger aims to recast...