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Quantum Field Theory is, along with General Relativity, the most precise physics theory ever devised by humans. So this is a pretty momentous paper!
But even though this was the beginning of QFT, and in particular quantum electrodynamics, it was *not* the first attempt to quantize electromagnetic waves.
Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan made an attempt in their 1926 paper "Zur Quantenmechanik. II.”
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