@article{blum_qed_2015,
	title = {{QED} and the man who didn׳t make it: {Sidney} {Dancoff} and the infrared divergence},
	volume = {50},
	issn = {1355-2198},
	shorttitle = {{QED} and the man who didn׳t make it},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355219815000301},
	doi = {10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.03.008},
	abstract = {Sidney Dancoff׳s paper “On Radiative Corrections for Electron Scattering” is generally viewed in the secondary literature as a failed attempt to develop renormalized quantum electrodynamics (QED) a decade early, an attempt that failed because of a mistake that Dancoff made. I will discuss Dancoff׳s mistake and try to reconstruct why it occurred, by relating it to the usual practices of the quantum field theory of his time. I will also argue against the view that Dancoff was on the verge of developing renormalized QED and will highlight the conceptual divides that separate Dancoff׳s work from the QED of the late 1940s. I will finally discuss how the established view of Dancoff׳s paper came to be and how the reading of this specific anecdote relates to more general assessments of the conceptual advances of the late 1940s (covariant techniques, renormalization), in particular to their assessment as being conservative rather than revolutionary.},
	urldate = {2015-07-11},
	journal = {Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics},
	author = {Blum, Alexander S.},
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {Quantum field theory, Renormalization, Dancoff, S., Quantum electrodynamics, Infrared divergence, Scattering},
	pages = {70--94}
}

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