Using Weyl ordering in a formalism due to this scientist leads to the midpoint prescription. In that formalism due to this physicist, the integral kernel, or propagator, of the time-evolution operator is expressed as the sum over all possible paths with a weighting factor proportional to the exponential of the action. That formalism is the path integral formulation. Like Julian Schwinger, this American's work on the renormalization of quantum electrodynamics won him a Nobel, and the arrow-containing-lines and squiggly lines that appear on his namesake diagrams are iconic of particle physics. For 10 points, name this bongo drum enthusiast whose undergrad lectures at CalTech were made into the
Using Weyl ordering in a formalism due to this scientist leads to the midpoint prescription. In that formalism due to this physicist, the integral kernel, or propagator, of the time-evolution operator is expressed as the sum over all possible paths with a weighting factor proportional to the exponential of the action. That formalism is the path integral formulation. Like Julian Schwinger, this American's work on the renormalization of quantum electrodynamics won him a Nobel, and the arrow-containing-lines and squiggly lines that appear on his namesake diagrams are iconic of particle physics. For 10 points, name this bongo drum enthusiast whose undergrad lectures at CalTech were made into the three volume set Lectures on Physics.
Using Weyl ordering in a formalism due to this scientist leads to the midpoint prescription.
Richard "Dick" Feynman