The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity: Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004,
It took great courage for 24-year-old Bryce DeWitt, who in 1947 had just retired as a US Navy pilot in World War II, to choose a self-energy quantum gravity problem for his PhD thesis. When DeWitt entered graduate school that year at Harvard University where he studied under Julian Schwinger, quantum gravity was a peripheral field in physics and not a critical focus as it is now. In The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity: Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004, DeWitt’s wife Cécile DeWitt-Morette presents an honest and authoritative account of his remarkable contributions to the quantization and renormalization of the gravitational field and of non-abelian gauge fields, both of which are central today in particle physics.
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