Pions to quarks: particle physics in the 1950s : based on a Fermilab symposium

Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson have assembled a prestigious group of physicists and historians of science to present a broadly balanced picture of this exciting scientific era that witnessed the coming of age of particle physics and its development into 'big science'...

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Other Authors: Brown, Laurie M. (Editor), Dresden, Max 1918- (Editor), Hoddeson, Lillian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1989
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Summary:Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson have assembled a prestigious group of physicists and historians of science to present a broadly balanced picture of this exciting scientific era that witnessed the coming of age of particle physics and its development into 'big science'. The historical studies and analyses provided in the volume are unique in their scope and level of detail. Major topics and developments addressed include the important experiments and their theoretical explanations, the design and construction of scientific instruments and the establishment of major research centres - especially the national laboratories that played a key role in the transformation of particle physics into 'big science'. These essays also range from sociological analyses of the particle physics subculture and the political aspects of research funding to discussions of symmetry and axiomatic field theory
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 734 pages)
ISBN:9780511563942
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511563942

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