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Portions of this entry contributed by Michel Barran
Japanese theoretical physicist born in Kyoto, Japan, on March 31, 1906 and died in Tokyo on July 8, 1979. He did
fundamental work on the foundations of quantum electrodynamics,  and was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize
for Physics jointly with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
 Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Tomonaga, S.-I. Scientific Papers of Tomonaga, 2 vols. Tokyo: T. Miyazima, 1971-1976.
Tomonaga, S.-I. Quantum Mechanics, 2 vols. Tokyo: Masatoshi Koshiba, 1962-66.
Tomonaga, S.-I. The Story of Spin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
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