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The twelfth Solvay Conference on Physics took place in Brussels from 9 to 14 October 1961. The general theme of the conference was ‘Quantum Field Theory’, and it would seem that this was the last time that this subject stood at the centre of a theoretical description of particle phenomena. In the following years the old quantum field theory would lose its dominant role in elementary particle theory, and return only much later in a largely modified form.

La Théorie Quantique des Champs, Rapports et Discussions du Douzième Conseil de Physique tenu à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles du 9 au 14 Octobre 1961, Interscience Publishers, New York, and R. Stoops, Brussels, 1962.

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Mehra, J. (1975). Quantum Field Theory. In: The Solvay Conferences on Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1867-8_11

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