The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Quantum Field Theory

• Quantum Field Theory, by Frank Wilczek (PDF) [MIT]
• Notes for a Brief History of Quantum Gravity, by C. Rovelli, 2000/06:
• A History of Feynman's Sum over Histories in Quantum Mechanics, by A. Inomata and G. Junker, 98/11
• Julian Schwinger and the Casimir Effect, by K. A. Milton, 98/11
• Early History of Gauge Theories and Kaluza-Klein Theories, by L. O'Raifeartaigh and N. Straumann, 98/10
• The Early Days of Lattice Gauge Theory, by M. Creutz, 2003/06
• Low-Energy Supersymmetry, by Howard E. Haber, 95/10 Page 2
• The Quest for Quantum Gravity, by G. Au, 95/06
• Julian Schwinger: Source Theory and the UCLA Years, by Kimball A. Milton, 95/05
• Reminiscences about Many Pitfalls and Some Successes of QFT Within the Last Three Decades, by B. Schroer, 94/10
• My Encounters -- as a Physicist -- with Mathematics, by R. Jackiw, 94/10
• Gauge Theory and Renormalization (memoir), by G. 't Hooft, 94/10
• Supergravity before 1976, by Dmitrij V. Volkov, 94/10
• One Hundred Years of Quantum Physics, by D. Kleppner and R. Jackiw, 2000/08:
• Historical Roots of Gauge Invariance, by J. D. Jackson and L. B. Okun, 2000/12:
• The Feynman Path Goes Monte Carlo, by T. Sauer, 2001/07:
• About the Origins of the Supersymmetric Standard Model, by P. Fayet, 2001/07:
• The Sources of Supergravity, by V. A. Soroka, 2002/03;
• The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on by Gerald V. Dunne [2012/02]

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