In the comments to yesterday's post on the Lamb shift[1][2], +Bruce Elliott and I were discussing how physics history could make for great movie ideas . This morning, it occurred to me that several of the journal articles I've read recently share a common theme, the goings on in and around the MIT and Columbia radiation, (radar), labs circa World War II. The whole thing might make a great intertwined stories movie. So, without further ado, here's a brief summary of a few of the players, final exams are coming up, so I'll spread this out a bit over the next few weeks. Schwinger Schwinger (picture 1), Feynman,and Tomonaga are three of the biggest names in quantum electrodynamics, (QED). In addition to his QED work, Schwinger was apparently a pivotal figure at the MIT radiation laboratory where he did theoretical work on radar. The Swinger-Lippmann scattering theory[3], a sort of framework for building other scatterin...