Abstract
Bryce Seligman DeWitt entered Harvard Graduate School in January 1946. He began his thesis work in 1947 under the nominal supervision of Julian Schwinger. The topic DeWitt chose, the quantization of the gravitational field, became his life’s work.
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Black Hole Quantum Theory Quantum Gravity Field Physics Casimir Effect
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