The Quantum Theory of the Emission and Absorption of Radiation. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 114, 1927

by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Harrison & Sons for the Royal Society, 1927 . First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Dirac’s quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, which for the first time reconciled the wave and particle nature of light. “This paper marks the birth of quantum electrodynamics. In his ‘Introduction and Summary,’ Dirac noted that the new quantum theory, based on non-commuting dynamical variables, was by

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