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John Ward: Memoir of a Theoretical Physicist

History and Philosophy of Physics 2020-08-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A scientific biography of John Ward, who was responsible for the Ward Identity in quantum electrodynamics; the first detailed calculation of the quantum entanglement of two photons in electron-positron annihilation with Maurice Pryce; the prediction of neutral weak currents in electroweak theory with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, and many other major calculations in theoretical physics.

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@article{arxiv.2007.16199,
  title  = {John Ward: Memoir of a Theoretical Physicist},
  author = {Norman Dombey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.16199},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Insertion of short paragraph in Introduction and extra names in Acknowledgement