STS.042J | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate

Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century

Lecture 20: A Conservative Revolution: QED and Renormalization

Prof. Kaiser discusses quantum fields and infinities, new experiments in quantum electrodynamics after the war, and Julian Schwinger and renormalization.

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