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This book originated in a session of invited papers that I arranged and chaired at the annual Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington (D.C.) in April 1990. The session bore the title: Renormalization. From Lorentz to Landau. Tom von Foerster, of Springer-Verlag, attended our session and afterwards encouraged us to use it as the basis for a book of essays on the history of renormalization. My task was to edit the papers and to write an introduction to the volume.
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Brown, L.M. (1993). Introduction: Renormalization. 1930–1950. In: Brown, L.M. (eds) Renormalization. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2720-5_1
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