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Old and new fashions in field theory

JUN 01, 1965
Freeman J. Dyson

Sixteen years ago I gave my first invited talk to the American Physical Society, and spoke about the exciting work that was then just coming to an end in quantum electrodynamics. Now I am here again, and it seems that everything looks very much the same as it did in 1949. Only two things have changed. I am not as nervous as I was then, and the audience looks a great deal younger.

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Freeman J. Dyson, University of California, San Diego.

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