The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960's and 1970's - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521578167 ISBN 13: 9780521578165

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this book gives the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of an exciting physics revolution--the rise of the Standard Model. The third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics, this volume focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman, and John Heilbron. A collaboration of physicists and historians of science, the wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.

About this title

Book Description:

Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics. It focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.

Review:

'... a beautifully produced collection of essays by most of the leading scientists involved - including no fewer than eight Nobel laureates - and several eminent historians ... both practitioners and knowledgeable bystanders can draw inspiration from these reflections on what may turn out to have been the golden age of particle physics.' Graham Farmelo, New Scientist

'The volume is informative and useful to historians of physics.' Helge Kragh, Centaurus

'... this book is ... worthwhile , timely and valuable.' R. Barlow, European Journal of Physics

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521578167
• ISBN 13: 9780521578165
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 714
• Editor: Hoddeson Lillian