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Quantum Electrodynamics

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Quantum electrodynamics is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics, describing how light and matter interact.

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Proposed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1948 1
Proposed BySourced to the subject's own account
Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga 1
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Co-formulated with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, per the cited source; neither is live in science this wave, entity requests filed separately.

Additional Source Quantum Electrodynamics (Wikipedia)History section (edge: proposed-by, Feynman)
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1. Quantum Electrodynamics (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section (entity-description)
    Quantum electrodynamics is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics, describing how light and matter interact.
  • Lead section (proposed-year)
    The theory was developed independently by Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, who published their renormalized formulations around 1948 and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work.
  • Lead section (proposed-by)
    The theory was developed independently by Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, who published their renormalized formulations around 1948 and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work.
  • Proposed By: Richard Feynman, History section (edge: proposed-by, Feynman)
    Based on Bethe's intuition and fundamental papers on the subject by Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman and Freeman Dyson, it was finally possible to produce fully covariant formulations that were finite at any order in a perturbation series of quantum electrodynamics.
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