The Rise of the Standard Model
Subtitle: A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979
Contributors: Lillian Hoddeson (Editor); Laurie Brown (Editor); Michael Riordan (Editor); Max Dresden (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780521578165
Subjects: History of science; Particle & high-energy physics; Science/Mathematics; Nuclear Physics; Science; Standard model (Nuclear physic; History; Science / Nuclear Physics; Science-History; Standard model (Nuclear physics)--History; Technology / General; Particles (Nuclear physics); Standard model (Nuclear physics)
First sentence: In the late 1970s elementary particle physicists began speaking of the "Standard Model" as the basic theory of matter.