Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

, usually known as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist and important in the creation of quantum electrodynamics. For this, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Tomonaga was born in Tokyo.
Tomonaga died on July 8, 1979 in Tokyo of throat cancer, aged 73.