QED and the Men Who Made It : : Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga / / Silvan S. Schweber.
In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had failed. In the post-World War II period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and develope...
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