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Quantum Electrodynamics — From a Personal Perspective —

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History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics

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Renormalized quantum electrodynamics is such a sturdy theory that its breakdown has not yet been witnessed, in spite of the most careful and extensive scrutinies it has undergone since its inception in 1947. In this talk I review the high precision tests at low energies in which I have participated for nearly 30 years, through calculation of higher-order radiative corrections to the anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and the muon and to the hyperfine structure of the ground state of muonium.

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Kinoshita, T. (1996). Quantum Electrodynamics — From a Personal Perspective —. In: Newman, H.B., Ypsilantis, T. (eds) History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 352. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1147-8_2

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