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A Path to Quantum Electrodynamics

FEB 01, 1989
A youthful fascination with electrodynamics drove Feynman through a succession of ideas until, with a prod by experiment, he reached an intuitive view of quantum electrodynamics.
Julian Schwinger

On 10 December 1965 three people shared a Nobel Prize “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.” I am the sole survivor of that trio. Almost a decade ago I delivered a memorial lecture for Sin‐itiro Tomonaga. Now I join with others in a tribute to Richard P. Feynman.

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References

  1. 1. R. P. Feynman, “The Development of the Space‐Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics,” Nobel lecture, 11 December 1965, in Les Prix Nobel en 1965, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm (1966); edited version printed in PHYSICS TODAY, August 1966, p. 31.

  2. 2. R. P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character, Norton, New York (1985).

  3. 3. R. P. Feynman, QED, Princeton U.P., Princeton, N.J (1985).

More about the authors

Julian Schwinger, University of California.

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Volume 42, Number 2

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