On Angular Momentum

AconcisetreatmentofangularmomentumbyanimportantAmericanphysicist,thismajorworkwasfirstpublishedundertheauspicesoftheUnitedStatesAtomicEnergyCommissionin1952andisfinallyavailabletoageneralaudienceofstudentsandprofessionalsinthefield.Advancedundergraduatesandgraduatestudentsofphysicswillparticularlybenefitfromitsteachings.OneofthemostprominentAmericanphysicistsofthetwentiethcentury,JulianSchwinger(1918–94)taughtatHarvard,MIT,andUCLA,amongotherinstitutions.Inadditiontohismanyotherawards,Schwinger,jointlywithRichardFeynmanandShinichiroTomonaga,receivedtheNobelPrizeinPhysicsin1965forhisworkinquantumelectrodynamics.,