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Particle Physics - One Hundred Years of Discoveries (An Annotated Chronological Bibliography) (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
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Particle Physics - One Hundred Years of Discoveries (An Annotated Chronological Bibliography) (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
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The history of particle physics goes back over one hundred years to
J. B. Perrin's discovery in 1895 that cathode rays are a flow of
negatively charged particles. Exactly a century later, the field of
particle physics closed an important chapter with the experimental
confirmation of the existence of the sixth and last quark, the top
quark. This detailed chronology defines the whole discipline of
particle and high-energy physics. Particle Physics: One Hundred
Years of Discoveries recounts the dramatic history of the search
for the ultimate constituents of matter by presenting key material
on more than 500 seminal papers in particle physics. Of great
interest are the actual excerpts from the original papers. This
annotated, chronological bibliography presents the most influential
theoretical and experimental discoveries in particle physics, many
of which have been cited for the Nobel prize. A general
introduction places the original articles in historical context.
For each entry there is a short description explaining the
importance of the discovery, followed by complete bibliographic
information, including title, authors, abstracts or excerpts and
references. Readers will find J. J. Thomson's original words,
written in 1897, announcing the discovery of the first elementary
particle, the electron; Einstein's three world-changing papers of
1905; Dirac's prediction, in 1931, of the positron; Murray
Gell-Mann's 1964 proposal that hadrons are composite particles; and
final confirmation of the quark theory, with the discovery in 1995
of the top quark. A complete chronological listing and author and
subject indexes make the book easy to use as a reference. Particle
Physics: One Hundred Years ofDiscoveries is a concise summing up of
man's continuing efforts to uncover the ultimate secrets of nature.
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