DYSON, Freeman. "Electromagnetic Shift of Energy Levels" in The Physical Review, vol 73, no. 6., 15 March 1948, (pp 617-626 of the issue comprising pp 545-644). Very good copy. In the original printed wrappers. Scarce. $175
This is Dyson's (b. 1923) first published paper (on the Lamb Shift, and at age 25) in physics, showing a remarkable aptitude, and just a little more than a year away from his publishing his great paper in QED. He was working under Hans Bethe at Cornell at the time, a time in which Cornell may have been about the shining light in American physics. Dyson came highly (very, very highly) recommended by Geoffrey Taylor to Hans Bethe:
You'll have received an application from Mr Freeman Dyson to come to work with you as a graduate student. I hope that you will accept him. Although he is only 23 he is in my view the best mathematician in England.
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