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Shelter Island Conference (1947)
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https://gptkb.org/entity/Shelter_Island_Conference_(1947)
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gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:conference
gptkbp:date
June 2–4, 1947
gptkbp:followedBy
gptkb:Pocono_Conference_(1948)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Shelter Island Conference (1947)
gptkbp:location
gptkb:Shelter_Island,_New_York,_United_States
gptkbp:notableParticipant
gptkb:Abraham_Pais
gptkb:David_Bohm
gptkb:Edward_Teller
gptkb:Gregory_Breit
gptkb:Hans_Bethe
gptkb:Harold_Urey
gptkb:Hendrik_Kramers
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:Robert_Serber
gptkbp:notablePresentation
gptkb:Anomalous_magnetic_dipole_moment_of_the_electron_(by_Isidor_Isaac_Rabi)
Lamb shift (by Willis Lamb)
gptkbp:organizedBy
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:participants
24
gptkbp:precededBy
no direct predecessor; first in a series of postwar physics conferences
gptkbp:resultedIn
advances in quantum field theory
gptkbp:significance
marked the beginning of modern quantum electrodynamics
gptkbp:topic
quantum electrodynamics
quantum mechanics
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Shelter_Island,_New_York,_United_States
gptkb:Shelter_Island_(island)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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