The Particle Hunters

Ne'eman, Yuval; Kirsh, Yoram

ISBN 10: 0521301947 / ISBN 13: 9780521301947

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1986

About this Item

1st edition in English, 1986 (originally published in Hebrew in 1983; translated with by the authors with assistance from Esther Berger). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Interior appears free of markings. Light shelfwear to corners, one corner bumped. Exterior looks very nice overall and shelfwear is generally quite minor. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Seller Inventory # 301866

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Particle Hunters
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521301947
• ISBN 13: 9780521301947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition in English.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket Issued
• Weight: 26 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science History and Philosophy

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Synopsis

In The Particle Hunters, the authors give a non-technical account of the fascinating story of the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. Beginning with the experiments of Thompson and Rutherford at the turn of the century, the book chronicles how physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom, and concludes with an up-to-date description of recent discoveries, including the 'charmed', 'beauty' and 'truth' quarks, the psi and upsilon particles, the tau lepton and the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, the carriers of the weak force. All that is required of the reader is a knowledge of a few basic concepts, such as energy, mass and electric charge. This lucid and entertaining exposition of the search for the ultimate 'elementary' particles, co-authored by a scientist who himself was responsible for many of the major steps forward in the field, will interest anyone wishing to keep pace with the progress of human knowledge, from the scientifically educated general reader, through to the professional physicist.

Book Description

From the recent discovery of the "top quark" to the search for the Higgs particle, the frontiers of particle physics beckon the imagination. This text explains in an engaging, nonmathematical style the principles of modern theories such as quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity.