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Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators - Including Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators - Including Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Series: Particle Acceleration and Detection
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Julian Schwinger was already the world's leading nuclear theorist
when he joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1943, at the ripe
age of 25. Just 2 years earlier he had joined the faculty at
Purdue, after a postdoc with OppenheimerinBerkeley,
andgraduatestudyatColumbia. Anearlysemester at Wisconsin had
con?rmed his penchant to work at night, so as not to have to
interact with Breit and Wigner there. He was to perfect his
iconoclastic 1 habits in his more than 2 years at the Rad Lab.
Despite its deliberately misleading name, the Rad Lab was not
involved in nuclear physics, which was imagined then by the
educated public as a esoteric science without possible military
application. Rather, the subject at hand was the perfection of
radar, the beaming and re?ection of microwaves which had already
saved Britain from the German onslaught. Here was a technology
which won the war, rather than one that prematurely ended it, at a
still incalculable cost. It was partly for that reason that
Schwinger joined this e?ort, rather than what might have appeared
to be the more natural project for his awesome talents, the
development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. He had got a bit of a
taste of that at the "Metallurgical Laboratory" in Chicago, and did
not much like it. Perhaps more important for his decision to go to
and stay at MIT during the war was its less regimented and isolated
environment.
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