Quantum electrodynamics. I. A covariant formulation. Offprint from: Physical Review, Vol. 74, No. 10, pp. 1439-1461, November 15, 1948

by Julian Schwinger

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First edition

Lancaster and New York: American Physical Society, 1948 . First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Schwinger’s invention of the theory of renormalization in quantum electrodynamics QED . Schwinger 1918-94 shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.” “Renormalization was one of the great peaks of the

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