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020 _z9780521431699 (hardback)
020 _z9780521568913 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
041 1 _aeng
_hger
050 0 0 _aQC680
_b.M55 1994
082 0 0 _a537.6
_220
100 1 _aMiller, Arthur I.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEarly quantum electrodynamics :
_ba source book /
_cArthur I. Miller ; translations from the German by Walter Grant.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1994.
300 _a1 online resource (xix, 265 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aFrom quantum mechanics toward quantum electrodynamics -- Second quantization -- Photons and relativistic electrons -- Quantum electrodynamics -- Theories of the nuclear force in the 1930s.
520 _aThis book provides a panoramic view from 1927-1938 of the development of a physical theory that has been on the cutting-edge of theoretical physics ever since P. A. M. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field in 1927: quantum electrodynamics. Like the classic papers chosen for this volume, the introductory Frame-Setting Essay emphasizes conceptual transformations which carried physicists to the threshold of renormalization theory. The published papers and correspondence of Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac and Pauli provide a fascinating analysis of the meaning and structure of a scientific theory. This book goes beyond the historical and philosophical into current physics. Unavailability of English-language versions of certain key papers, some of which are provided in this book, has prevented their implications from being fully realized. Awareness of research from sixty years ago could well provide insights for future developments.
650 0 _aQuantum electrodynamics
_xHistory.
700 1 _aGrant, Walter,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521431699
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608223
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