This is a collection of important lecture and original articles and
commentaries by Martin Perl, discoverer of the tau lepton and the
third generation of elementary particles, and this year's Nobel
Prize winner. This book contains a fascinating and realistic
picture of experimental science based on the high energy physics
research work carried out by him. Using reprints of his articles
with his commentaries, the author presents the various aspects of
experimental research in science: the pleasures and risks of
experimental work; the pain and frustration with experiments that
are useless or fail; the dreaming about experiments that were not
carried out; the constant search for innovation and creativity in
the work; and the special joy of discovery. The articles and
commentaries range from the early days of bubble chambers and spark
chambers in the 1950's to the author's present research,
experiments at an electron-positron collider and a search for free
quarks. The book is for the general reader as well as the
scientist.
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