TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaiser,David
TI  - Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics 
SN  - 9780226422657 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QC794.6.F4 K35 2005eb
U1  - 530/.0973/0904 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Feynman diagrams
KW  - Physics
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Feynman, Diagrammes de
KW  - Physique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Energy
KW  - Theoretische fysica
KW  - gtt
KW  - Feynman-diagrammen
KW  - ფიზიკა ისტორია
KW  - ისტორია აშშ მე-20 საუკუნე
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-460) and index; Pedagogy and the institutions of theory -- I: Dispersing the diagrams, 1948-54 -- An introduction in the Poconos -- Freeman Dyson and the postdoc cascade -- International dispersion -- II: Dispersion in form, use, and meaning -- III: Feynman diagrams in and out of field theory, 1955-70 -- Teaching the diagrams in an age of textbooks -- Doodling toward a new "theory" -- "Democratic" diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton -- Paper tools and the theorists' way of life
N2  - Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young t
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