Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎 Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, March 31, 1906July 8, 1979) 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 (1997). The Story of Spin. University of Chicago Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-226-80794-0. 
  • ...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 (1997). The Story of Spin. University of Chicago Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-226-80794-0. 

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