Rise of the Standard Model : Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s

Hoddeson, Lillian (EDT); Brown, Laurene Krasny (EDT); Riordan, Michael (EDT); Dresden, Max (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0521578167 / ISBN 13: 9780521578165

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rise of the Standard Model : Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521578167
• ISBN 13: 9780521578165
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.