{"product_id":"robert-oppenheimer-interaction-elementary-particles-mimeograph-1950-117245","title":"The Problems of the Interaction of Elementary Particles.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ethe midwife of qed\u003c\/h4\u003eThe rare, mimeographed text of Oppenheimer's precursor lectures to Richard Feynman's \u003cem\u003eQuantum Electrodynamics and Meson Theories\u003c\/em\u003e, presented at Caltech between January 16th and 27th, 1950. WorldCat locates only one institutional copy, at Caltech, and none appear in auction records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough best known for leading the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer made important contributions to both particle physics and quantum electrodynamics. He predicted the existence of the positron and served as 'midwife' to the Tomonaga-Schwinger-Feynman construction of quantum electrodynamics, the first theory to reconcile Einstein's special relativity with quantum mechanics. The present talks were presented at the moment of QED's formalisation and the physics community's collective turn towards particle physics as the new frontier (Monk, \u003cem\u003eInside the Center: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 540).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Oppenheimer explains in the first lecture, this course is relatively introductory and non-mathematical, in part because it will be followed immediately by a more technical series by Feynman, the important \u003cem\u003eQuantum Electrodynamics and Meson Theories\u003c\/em\u003e talks given in February and March the same year. Though both series were made available as mimeographs, Oppenheimer's is somewhat scarcer institutionally and within the trade than Feynman's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e86-page wire-stitched mimeographed text, rectos only, three punched holes, contemporary ownership signature on the title, faintly toned along the edges, final leaf detached, housed in a blue cloth folding case, very good condition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OPPENHEIMER, Robert.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57391413920119,"sku":"117245","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/117245_5f6aa7c2-f5d2-4355-b60f-cc384c6c6b30.jpg?v=1791751863","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/robert-oppenheimer-interaction-elementary-particles-mimeograph-1950-117245","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}