Julian Schwinger, Quantum Electrodynamics II. Vacuum polarization and self-energy. In: Physical Review, Vol. 75, No. 4, February 15, 1949 pp 651-679. Original wrappers. Fine copy. $250
This is the second paper (of three) of Schwinger’s great and Nobel Prize effort (shared with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in 1965 "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles” ) in the renominalization of QED.
- The copy of Sheila C. Power [Tinney], with her name (signed?) at top right front cover.
From the Royal Irish Academy: “Erwin Schrödinger described [Power] as among the 'best equipped and most successful of the younger generation of theoretical physicists in this country',”
(“Power”)…went to the University of Edinburgh to work on a doctorate [under Max Born]…and worked with him on the stability of crystal lattices, and was awarded a Ph.D. by Edinburgh in 1941. She is believed to be the first Irish woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences….In 1941 she was appointed to an assistant lectureship in UCD, at the age of 23, and also held a part-time fellowship in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). A year later, she was the only woman attending an international colloquium in the institute, at which the Nobel prize winner Paul Dirac lectured on quantum electrodynamics. From September 1948 to June 1949 she took leave of absence to go on a fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked on aspects of nuclear physics…”
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