文档介绍：ic Radiation:
Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators
Kimball A. Milton J. Schwinger
ic Radiation:
Variational Methods,
Waveguides and Accelerators
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Kimball A. Milton
University of Oklahoma
Homer L. Dodge
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Norman, OK 73019, USA
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Julian Schwinger
(1918-1994)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005938671
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ISBN-13 978-3-540-29304-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
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 pos