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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
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thumb|Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎 Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
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Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.
about the electron, in Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka The Story of Spin University of Chicago Press 1997 0-226-80794-0 60
...a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.
about Ralph Kronig's criticism on Samuel Goudsmit's proposal of a self-rotating electron, inflicting the same reaction to Goudsmit as Kronig had been incurred from Wolfgang Pauli Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka The Story of Spin University of Chicago Press 1997 0-226-80794-0 217
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Category:1906 births
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Category:Nobel laureates from Japan