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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard P. Feynman info

First published 1985

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About this book

Quantum electrodynamics explained with arrows and no equations.

The author

Richard P. Feynman

1918–1988 · American theoretical physicist

  • Nobel laureate
  • Albert Einstein Award
  • National Medal of Science
  • Professor at Caltech
Profession
Physicist, Professor
Worked at
Caltech, Cornell, Manhattan Project
Studied at
Princeton, MIT
Studied under
John Archibald Wheeler
Prizes
Albert Einstein Award (1954), Nobel Prize in Physics (1965), National Medal of Science (1979), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1962), Oersted Medal (1972), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965), Fellow of the American Physical Society, Putnam Fellow (1939), Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1973)

Cracked safes at Los Alamos for fun while working on the bomb.

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Reading order

Pairs with: Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang (Allday)

In print

Yes · Princeton University Press

Which edition

Any edition: the text hasn't changed. The Princeton Science Library edition (2006) adds an introduction by A. Zee.

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Editions

2 editions · 1 hardcover, 0 paperback

First published 1985

Earliest edition listed: 1998 · Penguin Books · Hardcover · Reissue edition · Spanish

  • 1998 · Penguin Books · Hardcover · Reissue edition · Spanish · ISBN 9780140125054
  • 1998 · Penguin Books · Spanish · ISBN 9780140125054

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Subjects

Physics