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Also Known As	gauge field theory

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quantum chromodynamics electroweak theory gauge symmetry vector minus axial vector theory gauge transformation gauge invariance local gauge invariance unified field theory quantum electrodynamics quantum field theory supergravity Casimir effect renormalization

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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah

British mathematician

Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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