solrize on Nostr: I thought "QED and the men who made it" by Sylvan S. Schweber was great, though as ...

I thought "QED and the men who made it" by Sylvan S. Schweber was great, though as the title says it is mostly about QED's development from 1946 to 1951 or so, by Tomonaga, Schwinger, Feynman, and Dyson. It gets pretty detailed and I didn't understand the very technical parts, one reason I'm trying to catch up a bit, though I probably still won't get there. It's part history, part biography, part physics. Other than there are some biographies of Dirac and Einstein that I liked, though they were less about the physics.