Shelter Island Conference

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shelter_Island_Conference

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:conference
gptkbp:date	1947-06-02 1947-06-04
gptkbp:field	physics
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Pocono_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
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Shelter Island Conference