X-Nico

unusual facts about quantum electrodynamics



Klein–Nishina formula

The Klein–Nishina formula was derived in 1928 by Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina, and was one of the first results obtained from the study of quantum electrodynamics.

Zero-point energy

Robert Jaffe of MIT argues that the Casimir force should not be considered evidence for vacuum energy, since it can be derived in QED without reference to vacuum energy by considering charge-current interactions (the radiation-reaction picture).


see also

Tomonaga

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906-1979), a Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics