Dresden M. Kramers: Between Tradition and Revolution

Springer, 1987. - 563 p.
The book is devoted to life and science of Hendrik Anthony Kramers (1894-1952), a Dutch physicist known for his fundamental works in quantum physics, quantum electrodynamics, electromagnetism, statistical mechanics, solid-state physics, etc. With Werner Heisenberg he developed the Kramers–Heisenberg dispersion formula, with Wentzel and Brillouin - the WKB approximation, with Ralph Kronig - the Kramers-Kronig relation. He is also credited with introducing in 1948 the concept of renormalization into quantum field theory.
For about ten years he was an assistant of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In 1926 he became the professor at the Utrecht university, in 1934 he succeeded his teacher Paul Ehrenfest in Leiden.