What is Shin'ichirō Tomonaga?
[[File:Tomonaga.jpg|thumb|Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]] {{nobelprize|Physics}}{{nihongo|'''Shinichiro Tomonaga'''<ref>For this spelling see: [[Shigeru Nakayama]], Kunio Gotō, Hitoshi Yoshioka (eds.), ''A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Road to self-reliance 1952-1959'', Trans Pacific Press, 2005, p. 723.</ref>|朝永 振一郎|Tomonaga Shin'ichirō|extra=March 31, 1906 &ndash; July 8, 1979}}, usually known as '''Sin-Itiro Tomonaga''' in English,<ref>{{cite book |last=Schweber |first=S. S. |author-link=S. S. Schweber |title=QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga |year=1994 |page=[https://archive.org/details/qedmenwhomadeitd0000schw/page/252 252] |isbn=9780691033273 |url=https://archive.org/details/qedmenwhomadeitd0000schw/page/252 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}.</ref> was a [[Japan]]ese [[physicist]] and important in the creation of [[quantum electrodynamics]]. For this, he won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1965<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hayakawa, Satio|title=Obituary: Sin-itiro Tomonaga|journal=Physics Today|date=December 1979|volume=32|issue=12|pages=66–68|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v32/i12/p66_s1?bypassSSO=1|doi=10.1063/1.2995326|bibcode=1979PhT....32l..66H|doi-access=free}}{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> along with [[Richard Feynman]] and [[Julian Schwinger]]. Tomonaga was born in [[Tokyo]]. Tomonaga died on July 8, 1979 in Tokyo of [[throat cancer]], aged 73. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tomonaga, Shinichiro}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from throat cancer]] [[Category:Japanese physicists]] [[Category:Scientists from Tokyo]] {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{bio-stub}}