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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series in Physics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Birth of Quantum Field Theory
- 2. The 1930s
- 3. The War and Its Aftermath
- 4. Three Conferences: Shelter Island, Pocono, and Oldstone
- 5. The Lamb Shift and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron
- 6. Tomonaga and the Rebuilding of Japanese Physics
- 7. Julian Schwinger and the Formalization of Quantum Field Theory
- 8. Richard Feynman and the Visualization of Space-Time Processes
- 9. Freeman Dyson and the Structure of Quantum Field Theory
- 10. QED in Switzerland
- Epilogue: Some Reflections on Renormalization Theory
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX