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As a visiting professor at Princeton University in
the spring of 1953, Fritz Rohrlich offered a course on relativistic
quantum theory for the many students eager to master the novel techniques
introduced by Feynman, Schwinger, Dyson, and Tomonaga. Rohrlich
and his students wrote up the notes to these lectures in mimeograph
form as Applied Quantum Electrodynamics, which is made available
for viewing here.
After returning to the State University of Iowa, Rohrlich
joined forces with his colleague J. M. Jauch, drawing upon these
lectures to write the well-known textbook The Theory of Photons
and Electrons (1955). Due to the quickly changing subject matter
and the collaborative authorship, the latter textbook differs considerably
from Rohrlich's earlier lectures, which are consequently of considerable
historical interest.
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