QED and the men who made it

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• assemblyman · Feb 11, 2026 · Recommends

  …Different Drum by Jagdish Mehra - Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick - Selected Papers - https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/4270 (expensive and technical) - QED and the men who made it by Schweber There are also many historical physicists who are surprisingly unknown outside the field - Schwinger, Tomonaga, Landau, Sidney Coleman, Murray Gell-mann, Nambu, Steven Weinberg, Ken Wilson,…

  on “The Feynman Lectures on Physics (online edition)” ↗
• da-bacon · Apr 5, 2021 · Recommends

  …it’s not just math and computation, meaning is hugely significant. I’d also say the path integral is not what he is most known for among practicing physicists, but that’s another story (I recommend “QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga@).

  on “When Feynman met Dirac (2020)” ↗
• lewtun · Sep 6, 2025 · Recommends

  “QED and the Men Who Made It” [1] might be close to what you’re after for quantum theory at least. Unlike other popular accounts, it gets quite technical and covers a lot of the historical dead ends that people had during the development…

  on “Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book” ↗
• throwaway81523 · Jan 10, 2025 · Mentions

  QED And The Men Who Made It, by Sylvan S. Schweber. About the development of quantum electrodynamics. It is partly biography, centering on Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itoro Tomonaga in roughly decreasing…

  on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗