1. The Birth of Quantum Field Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvi
5. INTRODUCTION xxi
6. 1. The Birth of Quantum Field Theory 1
7. 2. The 1930s 76
8. 3. The War and Its Aftermath 130
9. 4. Three Conferences: Shelter Island, Pocono, and Oldstone 156
10. 5. The Lamb Shift and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron 206
11. 6. Tomonaga and the Rebuilding of Japanese Physics 248
12. 7. Julian Schwinger and the Formalization of Quantum Field Theory 273
13. 8. Richard Feynman and the Visualization of Space-Time Processes 373
14. 9. Freeman Dyson and the Structure of Quantum Field Theory 474
15. 10. QED in Switzerland 576
16. Epilogue: Some Reflections on Renormalization Theory 595
17. NOTES 606
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 672
19. INDEX 725