"In 1936 Weisskopf proposed to set aside in quantum electrodynamics the divergent effects at small distances, and to consider only the charge of the particle observed at long distances. This assertion anticipated charge and mass renormalization. Later he showed that the self-energy of an electron in Dirac theory diverges only logarithmically, a result that was important for the later development of renormalization theory."
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Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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