"The great success of calculations in quantum electrodynamics using the renormalization idea generated a new enthusiasm for quantum electrodynamics. After this change of mood, probably most theorists simply didn’t worry about having to deal with infinite renormalizations. Some theorists thought that these infinities were just a consequence of having expanded in powers of the electric charge of the electron, and that not only observables but even quantities like the “bare” electron charge (the charge appearing in the field equations of quantum electrodynamics) would be found to be finite when we learned how to calculate without perturbation theory. But at least two leading theorists had their doubts about this, and thought that the appearance of infinite renormalizations in perturbation theory was a symptom of a deeper problem, a problem not with perturbation theory but with quantum field theory itself. They were Lev Landau, and Gunnar Källén."
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