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The achievement depended on complementary ways to organize the same physics. In his Nobel lecture, delivered in 1966 for the 1965 prize, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga described covariant contact transformations and replacing the unobservable bare mass and electric charge by experimental values. He also credited Julian Seymour Schwinger's magnetic-moment work and Richard Feynman's methods for extending the approximation.^[ref]

Richard Feynman's 1965 lecture traced his spacetime and path integral viewpoint and the Feynman diagrams that made perturbation theory easier to organize. He emphasized that the path integral viewpoint helped him find expressions without being essential to every calculation. These accounts support shared credit for workable renormalized QED, not attribution of the whole theory to a single person.^[ref]

Awarded in equal shares to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Seymour Schwinger and Richard Feynman for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with consequences for elementary particles.^[ref]

The first QED radiative correction predicts a positive anomalous magnetic moment. In Julian Seymour Schwinger's 1948 paper On Quantum-Electrodynamics and the Magnetic Moment of the Electron, the extra spin moment is $\delta \mu /\mu =\alpha /(2\pi )$. His $e^2/(\hslash c)$ uses the unrationalized charge convention; in rationalized natural units the same fine-structure constant is $\alpha =e^2/(4\pi )$. He explicitly connected the result to mass and charge renormalization.^[ref]

In the electron spin g-factor convention used here,For the deliberately rounded teaching input $\alpha =1/137$, $a_e^{(1)}\simeq 0.0011617149$ and $g_s^{(1)}\simeq 2.0023234298$. The correction is about $0.116\%$ of the Dirac equation spin moment. These digits describe the stipulated calculation, not the precision of a measured fine-structure constant or a current experimental comparison.