QED and the men who made it : Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga

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QED and the men who made it : Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga

Title remainder

Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga

Statement of responsibility

Silvan S. Schweber

Creator

• Schweber, S. S., (Silvan S)

Subject

• History
• Physicists -- Biography
• Quantum electrodynamics -- History
• Biographies

Genre

• History
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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. In the post-World War II period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and developed a calculable version of quantum electrodynamics (QED). This formulation of QED was pioneered by Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, three of whom won the Nobel Prize for their work. Schweber begins with an account of the early work done by physicists such as Dirac and Jordan, and describes the gathering of eminent theorists at Shelter Island in 1947. The rest of his narrative comprises individual biographies of the four physicists, discussions of their major contributions, and the story of the scientific community in which they worked"--Publisher's description

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• Princeton series in physics

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Series statement

Princeton series in physics