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Julian Seymour Schwinger, thirty-five-year-old Professor of physics, has kept his life pretty much to himself. Since his seventeenth birthday, this genial, soft-spoken man has been challenging the frontiers of physics, armed with only his intellect, a pencil, and paper. Far removed from most undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...
...class, but addresses the balckboard, writing as be talks. "When I lecture," he says, "I'm talking out loud to myself. I only hope that those who are listening will understand." Apparently this hope is justified for his lucidity often makes extremely complicated lecture material somewhat easier to digest. Schwinger likes teaching for it enables him to try out on his class new ways of attacking traditional problems...
However, Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics, feels that "it is improbable to get the high temperatures necessary for fusion other than by plutonium or uranium explosions...
...prize will, be presented at Princeton University to Schwinger and his co-winner, Kurt Goedel, professor of Mathematics, at Princeton...
...Schwinger, who helped develop radar during the war, has made important discoveries concerning the relation between electrons and light. Goedel has determined that certain mathematical statements can be neither proven nor disproven...