Early quantum electrodynamics

"This book provides a panoramic view during 1927-1938 of the development of a physical theory that has been on the cutting edge of theoretical physics ever since P. A. M. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field in 1927: quantum electrodynamics. Like the classic papers chosen for this volume, the introductory Frame-Setting Essay emphasizes conceptual transformations that carried physicists to the threshold of renormalization theory. For the most part the leaders in fundamental developments in quantum electro-dynamics were the same physicists whose focus on conceptual issues led to…