edited by Yee Jack Ng (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

In the post-quantum-mechanics era, few physicists, if any, have matched Julian Schwinger in contributions to and influence on the development of physics. A deep and provocative thinker, Schwinger left his indelible mark on all areas of theoretical physics; an eloquent lecturer and immensely successful mentor, he was gentle, intensely private, and known for being “modest about everything except his physics”. This book is a collection of talks in memory of him by some of his contemporaries and his former students: A Klein, F Dyson, B DeWitt, W Kohn, D Saxon, P C Martin, K Johnson, S Deser, R Finkelstein, Y J Ng, H Feshbach, L Brown, S Glashow, K A Milton, and C N Yang. From it, one can get a glimpse of Julian Schwinger, the physicist, the teacher, and the man. Altogether, this book is a must for all physicists, physics students, and others who are interested in great legends.

• Recollections of Julian Schwinger (A Klein)
• Schwinger's Response to the Award of an Honorary Degree at Nottingham
• Schwinger's “The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I” (F Dyson)
• The Uses and Implications of Curved-Spacetime Propagators: A Personal View (B DeWitt)
• Overview of Density Functional Theory (W Kohn)
• Julian Schwinger Memorial Tribute (D Saxon)
• Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (P C Martin)
• Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (K Johnson)
• Julian Schwinger — Personal Recollections (S Deser)
• Julian Schwinger: The QED Period at Michigan and the Source Theory Period at UCLA (R Finkelstein)
• Schwinging a Sorcerer's Wand: Julian and I (Y J Ng)
• Julian Schwinger — Reminiscences and Nuclear Physics (H Feshbach)
• An Important Schwinger Legacy: Theoretical Tools (L Brown)
• The Road to Electroweak Unification (S Glashow)
• Julian Schwinger: Source Theory and the UCLA Years — from Magnetic Charge to the Casimir Effect (K A Milton)
• Julian Schwinger (C N Yang)