Kimball Milton

Kimball Alan Milton (born November 29, 1944 in La Grande , Oregon ) is an American theoretical physicist .

Milton studied at the University of Washington ( Bachelor's degree in 1967) and Harvard University , where he received his master's degree in 1968 and his doctorate under Julian Schwinger in 1971 ( unitarity and vertex functions ). In the same year he followed Schwinger to the University of California, Los Angeles , where he conducted research until 1981 and was Adjunct Associate Professor from 1979 . From 1979 to 1981 he was a visiting associate professor at Ohio State University . In 1981 he became an associate professor and 1984 professor at Oklahoma State University . Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Munich (1982), at the KEK , the Fermilab , the University of Kyoto and the Los Alamos National Laboratory .

Milton did research in many areas with Schwinger and influenced by his methods (such as Source Theory), such as nonlinear and non-perturbation quantum field theory , magnetic monopoles and the Casimir effect . He edited several books by Julian Schwinger and is co-author with Jagdish Mehra of his biography. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (2011).

He has been married since 1978 and has three children.

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