The long way to the Statistical Bootstrap Model—part I
Channel: Creation of matter
Date: 2020-05-26

Keynote talk by Rolf Hagedorn, CERN, at the “Hot Hadronic Matter: theory and experiment” workshop, Divonne 1994, Published in Proceedings, NATO-ASI 346, pp13–46, https://doi.org//10.1007/978-1-4615-1945-4_2 (Plenum Press, New York 1995), eds. J. Letessier,  (Paris U., VI-VII), H.H. Gutbrod (Darmstadt, GSI ; CERN) and Johann Rafelski (Arizona U.).

The speaker is introduced by Evgenii L'vovich Feinberg, P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst.  Moscow.
A general discussion follows the lecture, including interventions by Torleif Ericson, CERN.

Rolf Hagedorn (20 July 1919 – 9 March 2003) was a German theoretical physicist. He is known for the idea that hadronic matter has a "melting point". The Hagedorn temperature is named in his honor.

This historical recording has been made available by CERN: https://cds.cern.ch/record/423172.