Who Invented Renormalization Group?

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Renormalization Captures Nature's Tendency to Sort Itself into Essentially Independent World's. Two Physicists, Murray Gell-Mann and Francis Low Francis Low...

Who Invented Renormalization Group?

Renormalization captures nature's tendency to sort itself into essentially independent worlds. Two physicists, Murray Gell-Mann and Francis Low

Francis Low
Francis Eugene Low (October 27, 1921 – February 16, 2007) was an American theoretical physicist. He was an Institute Professor at MIT, and served as provost there from 1980 to 1985. He was a member of the influential JASON Defense Advisory Group.
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, fleshed out this idea in 1954. They connected the two electron charges with one “effective” charge that varied with distance.

Why is it called renormalization group?

More generally the computation of some quantities in QED was yielding infinities in more than one place. Physicists began trying to cancel out the infinities. This process became known as renormalization in analogy with the process of computing probabilities called normalization.

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