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1	(Medical):born with Cystic Fibrosis	Behr, Pamela Robin (I720)
2	(Medical):Diabetes	Sohmer, Victor (I591)
3	(Medical):Intestinal contents may have been reversed from birth	Uram, Martin (I816)
4	(Medical):massive small bowel resection hyperthyroid	Sohmer, Anna (I578)
5	(Medical):Nasopharyngeal Cancer survivor!	Rosenfeld, Philip Cy (I121)
6	1 of 8 sibs	Handler, Louis (I581)
7	1921 12 1/2 pound baby	Uram, Bernard (I224)
8	1965 Nobel Prize in Physics [Main.ftw] JULIAN SCHWINGER 1918-1994 I first met Julian Schwinger in 1943 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After bouncing back and forth a few times between Cambridge and Chicago, Schwinger had chosen - for his own reasons - to work on radar at the wartime MIT Radiation Laboratory and not, as he had been urged to do, on atomic weapon development in the Manhatta'n Project Barely 25, he was already a legendary figure; I, two years younger, was an MIT graduate student about to submit my dissertation. Julian was half-a-dozen years away from his monumental work on quantum electrodynamics (the interaction between electrons and photons) which would bring him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, a prize he shared with Feynman and Tomonaga. Although Schwinger was world-famous and well travelled, he was quite unworldly. Bold and sure-handed in his physics. he was reserved to the point of shyness in ordinary daily life. He taught me much about physics; I like to think I taught him a little about getting along in the world. We became lifelong friends. Fifty-one years later he developed pancreatic cancer and his life precipitously ended, at the age of 76, on 16 July 1994. He continued working to the end. Born in New York City, with absolutely no science in his background, he became committed to physics at an unusually early age. He once remarked that he had been reading straight through the Encyclopaedia Britannica and when he came to the letter P and to physics, that was it. Largely self-educated, he published his first paper at the age of 17 while an undergraduate student at City College of New York which he had entered the year before. His precocity caught the attention of I. 1. Rabi (a future Nobel laureate), who brought him to Columbia University where he published his second paper, also minor, later that year. His first solo publication. on the quantum theory of the scattering of neutrons by magnetic materials, was another matter entirely. Submitted to the Physical Review on 11 January 1937, when he was still 18, it was an important piece of work, mature and elegant. The Schwinger techniques, his characteristic mastery of the subject and his physical insight. were on full display for the first time. He was. it was clear, a prodigy. His progress in those early years was rapid and his contributions major, first to nuclear physics at Columbia and Berkeley, and then to radar at MIT. After the war. Schwinger joined the faculty at Harvard and became a full professor at 29. Between 1948 and 1950 came the contributions thatled to his Nobel Prize. His Lorentz and gauge-invariant reformulation of quantum field theory provided a new and self-consistent basis for renormalizing the formally ill- defined mass and charge of the electron. Contrary to what many believed, no new hypotheses were required, but only the ability to see and work through the extraordinary complexities and apparent contradictions inherent in the conjunction of special relativity and quantum mechanics. His work and Feynman's, over the next decade, revolutionized the quantum theory of fields and of elementary particles and laid the foundation for much of the subsequent spectacular progress in high-energy physics and the ultimate structure of matter. In 1972 he left Harvard to come to the University of California at Los Angeles, where he had the title of University Professor. Julian Schwinger's legacy goes far beyond his published work. His lectures were elegant, lucid and original (he never did anything the same way twice), works of art and physics both. During the war years, I was asked to write up his lectures on radar waveguides. work we published as a monograph after the war, and so was a direct and happy beneficiary of his extraordinary qualities as a lecturer. Over the years, many others have similarly benefited from his lectures on such subjects as nuclear physics, quantum mechanics and field theory. Even more important was his role as a mentor. He directed more than 70 doctoral theses, and his students (and their students) fill the faculties of America's best universities. Of Julian's students, three have also won the Nobel Prize: B. Mottelson and S. Glashow in physics, and W. Gilbert in biology. Schwinger gave his students much more than guidance on their research. He gave them a depth of understanding and a mastery of the field which permitted each to become not a Schwinger disciple. but an independent scientist. Through his students, he has had a more widespread and profound influence on theoretical physics over the past forty years than any other physicist. Julian was a gentle and cultivated man. He and I had in common a serious love of music. I learned, mainly because of him, to play the recorder; he took piano lessons for decades. "If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly", he once said of his playing. There was a bitter-sweet quality to the later part of his life, for theoretical physks changed directions. It became, in Schwinger's view, too speculative, inadequately linked to experiment. He, accustomed to leading, chose not to follow. He became increasingly isolated, and, to a degree, estranged from the world community of physicists. Those of us who knew and loved him were saddened by this turn of events. But we took comfort in the certain knowledge that he was one of that handful whose magnificent contributions made science the great intellectual adventure of the twentieth century. David S. Saxon David S. Saxon is Professor Emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles. Department of Physics. Los Angetes. Cali- fornia 90024. USA Nature - Vol 370 - Aug 25, 1994	Schwinger, Julian (I637)
9	2 marriages; several children	Behr, Donald MD (I622)
10	Abraham's real name was Abraham Kolbert. At some point while still in Hungary (perhaps to avoid army service), he took his wife's maiden name and became Abraham Rosenberg. He died at a young age.	Rosenberg, Abraham (I557)
11	always called 'Aunt Chasin'	Mednitsky, Michla (I616)
12	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Koss, Brandon Jacob (I1376)
13	brought Charlotte to USA from Hungary	Friedlander, Adolph (Wolf) (I837)
14	Brought Gussie Susskind to USA in 1890's She was called Mima (Yiddish for 'aunt')	Susskind, Golda (I710)
15	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Curtis, Casey Jade (I990)
16	changed name from Grunewald	Granwell (I865)
17	Connecticutt	Kantrowitz, Teddy (I294)
18	Cousin to Buddy Rich (drums)	Rich, Mary (I20)
19	Died at age 3	Margolin, Gittel (I218)
20	Died during flu epidemic	Feuerwerker, Mollie (I1052)
21	died in concentration camp	Kantrowitz, Saul (I293)
22	Divorced a long time ago	Sohmer, Anna (I578)
23	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Botan, Rodica (I1893)
24	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: Harvey Samuel Rosenberg / Sandra Peikes (F476)
25	Endowed something at Boston University	Hollander, Estelle (I698)
26	Expert in amputee rehabilitation	Rubin, Gustav Md (I656)
27	fair	Source (S3)
28	Flew bombing missions WWII	Rosenberg, Judge Max (I590)
29	Florida	Kantrowitz, Sylvia (I296)
30	great singer, violinist, wrote poetry	Uram, Martin (I816)
31	He ran away from home at age 12 Learned the language of each country (Italian, Russian, etc) spoke 9 languages	Uram, Samuel (I246)
32	He ran off with a woman to California in the 1920's. Attempted to reconcile, but after failing, was never heard from again.	Rosenberg, Max (I523)
33	high school swim champion of NY	Friedlander, Alfred (I849)
34	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Rosenfeld, Willy (I541)
35	lived in Rosarito Beach (Baja)	Day, Mildred (I831)
36	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Steiner, Esther (I740)
37	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Rosenberg, Evan (I1061)
38	married an "Adams" related to Pres John Adams	Behr, Claire (I599)
39	Married into Bronfman family from Canada	unk (I708)
40	married to 2nd husband; 3 children by first; 1 male, 2 female	Sohmer, Elise (I649)
41	married; at least 1 daughter	Behr, Joseph (I118)
42	Met and married Nathan in USA	Susskind, Gussie (I2)
43	Moved from Hazelton to Brooklyn He was called 'Manny' by his siblings, but he was known as 'Jack' by his siblings and second wife, Helene Birthplace of Hungary taken from Henry's (Harry's) birth certificate	Rosenberg, Jacob Manuel (I446)
44	Moved to Hazelton sometime after 4/14/24 to take care of Jacob's children Possibly Kline	Klein, Helene (I468)
45	Name possibly Levinson	Levison, Daniel Alton (I1056)
46	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Warfield, Colbert Holland (I179)
47	New York	Kantrowitz, Label (I295)
48	obituary - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/03/ 08/MN24078.DTL	Rosenfeld, Philip Cy (I121)
49	Possibly Feigel	Fogel, Samuel (I1355)
50	Possibly Kline	Klein, Farkas (I1283)