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As I understand my assignment today, it is to review the quantum theory of radiation up to the birth of the idea of renormalization. In doing so I may overlap slightly with what Rohrlich has talked about, but I hope not substantially
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Peierls, R.E. (1973). The Development of Quantum Field Theory. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_17
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