Donald Robert Yennie (March 4, 1924 – April 14, 1993) was an American theoretical physicist and professor at

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. He is known for his work on renormalization in quantum electrodynamics and for early work on the structure of nucleons.

Biography

Yennie was born in

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, (1994). https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2808586 Raised in Midland Park, New Jersey, Yennie graduated from Pompton Lakes High School in 1941. He obtained his MA in physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology and his

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in physics at

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. He became professor at Cornell University in 1964 after working at

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and the

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. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978. His Ph.D. advisor was Nobel prize recipient Hideki Yukawa. Yennie himself was the Ph.D adviser of, among others,

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and Stanley J. Brodsky. The covariant gauge choice is named ''Yennie Gauge'' after him. In 1961, with

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and

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, he elucidated the role of infrared photons properly summed in high-energy quantum electrodynamics. This work was one of the keys to solving the problem of infrared divergences in gauge theories.J. M. Jauch and F. Rohrlich, "The theory of photons and electrons. The relativistic quantum field theory of charged particles with spin one-half," Springer, 1976,

References

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