Qed and the Men Who Made It

Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga

By: Silvan S. Schweber

Science

in the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. there appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with einstein's theory of relativity. several approaches had been tried and had failed. in the post-world war ii period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and developed a calculable version of quantum electrodynamics (qed), probably the most successful theory in physics....