Shelter Island Conference

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shelter_Island_Conference
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:conference
gptkbp:date 1947-06-02
1947-06-04
gptkbp:field physics
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Pocono_Conference
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Shelter Island Conference
gptkbp:location gptkb:Shelter_Island,_New_York,_USA
gptkbp:notableEvent discussion of renormalization in QED
presentation of Lamb shift results
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Abraham_Pais
gptkb:David_Bohm
gptkb:Edward_Teller
gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkb:Gregory_Breit
gptkb:Hans_Bethe
gptkb:Harold_Urey
gptkb:Isidor_Isaac_Rabi
gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Julian_Schwinger
gptkb:Melba_Phillips
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Henry_A._Bethe
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:participants 24
gptkbp:precededBy Wartime physics meetings
gptkbp:significance marked the beginning of postwar American theoretical physics
gptkbp:topic nuclear physics
particle physics
quantum electrodynamics
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Shelter_Island,_New_York
gptkb:Women_of_Influence_Award_(Shelter_Island_Conference)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7