Lectures on quantum electrodynamics [videorecording] : The Sir Douglas Robb lectures, 1979.

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Lectures on quantum electrodynamics [videorecording] : The Sir Douglas Robb lectures, 1979.

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These four lectures at the University of Auckland were delivered by Professor Richard P. Feynman on the subject of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the theory underlying the interaction between light and matter. Aimed at a general audience, they provide a non-mathematical account of QED. The lectures have both educational and historical value, giving insight into the character of both the subject matter and Feynman himself. The titles are: Photons -- Corpuscles of Light; Fits of Reflection; Electrons and their Interactions; New Queries. These are the lectures upon which Richard Feynman based his best selling book, QED-the Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

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Physicist Richard Feynman won his scientific renown through the development of quantum electrodynamics, or QED, a theory describing the interaction of particles and atoms in radiation fields. As a part of this work he invented what came to be known as "Feynman Diagrams," visual representations of space-time particle interactions. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, together with J. Schwinger and S. I. Tomonaga, in 1965. Later in his life Feynman became a prominent public fig...

University of Auckland. Dept. of Physics.

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