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CONSERVATION LAWS AND THE QUANTUM THEORY OF TRANSPORT: THE EARLY DAYS Gordon Baym Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA This talk reviews, from an historical perspective, a chapter in the development of quantum transport theory within the framework of self-consistent non-equilibrium Green’s functions. 1 INTRODUCTION Nearly forty years have sped by since Leo Kadanoff and I work