15 moments

1. Birth in Tokyo

   1906-03-31 · Tokyo, Japan

   Tomonaga was born in Tokyo, the beginning of a life that would lead to major contributions to quantum electrodynamics. Coordinates represent central Tokyo; the specific birth site is not identified by the source.

2. Family move to Kyoto

   1913-01-01 · Kyoto, Japan

   Tomonaga moved with his family to Kyoto after his father became a professor at Kyoto Imperial University. Coordinates represent Kyoto because the family's residence is not specified.

3. Entered Kyoto Imperial University

   1926-01-01 · Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto, Japan

   Tomonaga began his physics education at Kyoto Imperial University, where Hideki Yukawa was among his classmates. Coordinates represent the Yoshida Campus area of present-day Kyoto University.

4. Attended Heisenberg and Dirac lectures

   1929-09-01 · Tokyo, Japan

   After graduating, Tomonaga traveled from Kyoto to Tokyo to hear lectures by Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac. The lecture venue is not specified; coordinates represent central Tokyo.

5. Nishina lectures at Kyoto Imperial University

   1931-01-01 · Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto, Japan

   Tomonaga attended Yoshio Nishina's quantum-mechanics lectures in Kyoto and engaged with the lecturer, helping establish their scientific connection. Coordinates represent the Yoshida Campus area of present-day Kyoto University.

6. Joined Nishina Laboratory

   1932-04-01 · Tokyo, Japan

   Tomonaga moved into Nishina's research group at RIKEN, beginning a productive period of theoretical research in Tokyo. The source identifies Tokyo but not the exact historical RIKEN building; coordinates represent central Tokyo.

7. Research work at Gotemba

   1933-01-01 · Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan

   Tomonaga worked with Yoshio Nishina and Shoichi Sakata at Gotemba during the summer. The precise work site in or near Gotemba is not specified.

8. Dirac translation work in Karuizawa

   1935-01-01 · Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

   Tomonaga stayed in Karuizawa with collaborators to translate Paul Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics into Japanese. The villa's exact location is not identified; coordinates represent Karuizawa.

9. Worked with Heisenberg in Leipzig

   1937-01-01 · Leipzig, Germany

   Tomonaga went to Leipzig to work with Werner Heisenberg's theoretical group, a formative overseas research period that continued until shortly before war began in Europe in 1939. Coordinates represent central Leipzig; the source does not identify a specific university building.

10. Professor at Tokyo Bunrika University

    1941-01-01 · Tokyo Bunrika University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomonaga became professor of physics at Tokyo Bunrika University, where he pursued wartime theoretical and applied physics research. Coordinates represent the historic Otsuka campus area; the source does not provide a street address.

11. Institute for Advanced Study visit

    1949-01-01 · Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

    Tomonaga was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he worked on many-body problems. Coordinates represent the Institute for Advanced Study's Fuld Hall area.

12. First Pugwash Conference

    1957-07-01 · Thinkers' Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada

    

    Tomonaga participated in the first Pugwash Conference, an early international scientific meeting focused on nuclear dangers and peace. The cited photograph is identified as from the first Pugwash conference in Nova Scotia in 1957; Thinkers' Lodge is the documented conference site.

13. President and institute director in Tokyo

    1963-01-01 · Tokyo University of Education, Tokyo, Japan

    

    Tomonaga began a period as president of the Science Council of Japan and director of the Institute of Optical Research at Tokyo University of Education. Coordinates represent the historic Otsuka campus area of Tokyo University of Education; the source gives the office period but not a more precise date or building.

14. Absent from Nobel award ceremony

    1965-12-10 · Stockholm, Sweden

    Tomonaga did not travel to Stockholm to receive his 1965 Nobel Prize at the award ceremony, a consequential absence from a major public recognition of his work. Coordinates represent central Stockholm because the source does not identify the ceremony venue.

    They were not here. He was unable to be in Stockholm on December 10, 1965, to accept the Nobel Prize.

15. Death in Tokyo

    1979-07-08 · Tokyo, Japan

    Tomonaga died in Tokyo after a career spanning Japanese and international theoretical physics. Coordinates represent central Tokyo; the specific place of death is not identified by the source.