Japanese physicist, joint winner, with Richard P. Feynman and Julian
S. Schwinger of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1965 for developing basic principles of quantum electrodynamics. Tomonaga was president of the Tokyo University of Education from 1956 to 1962, and the following year he was named chairman of the Japan Science Council. Throughout his life Tomonaga actively campaigned against the spread of nuclear weapons and urged that resources be spent on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Most notable of his works available in English translation are Quantum Mechanics (1962) and his Nobel lecture Development of Quantum Electrodynamics: Personal Recollections (1966).
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