Pions to Quarks
Subtitle: Particle Physics in the 1950s
Contributors: Laurie Mark Brown (Editor); Max Dresden (Editor); Lillian Hoddeson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 766
ISBN-13: 9780521309844
Subjects: Science; Particles (Nuclear physics); Particle Physics; Science/Mathematics; Physics; Nuclear Physics; Particles (Nuclear physics)--History--Congresses; Science / Nuclear Physics; Congresses; History
First sentence: Between 1947 and 1963, a period freely referred to here as "the fifties," elementary particle physics was growing up and undergoing the triumphs and pains of its adolescence.