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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9780521570824
Subjects: History of science; Particle & high-energy physics; Particles (Nuclear physics); Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Science; Standard model (Nuclear physics); Science/Mathematics; Standard model (Nuclear physic; Standard model (Nuclear physics)--History; Technology / General; History
First sentence: In the late 1970s elementary particle physicists began speaking of the "Standard Model" as the basic theory of matter.
Description: Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.

The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.