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The Birth of Particle Physics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Birth of Particle Physics
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Laurie M. Brown
Edited by Lillian Hoddeson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:436
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreHistory of science
ISBN/Barcode 9780521338370
ClassificationsDewey:539.7
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 31 October 1986
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Editors Laurie Brown and Lillian Hoddeson have brought together a distinctive collection of essays, discussions, and personal descriptions of the evolution of particle physics based on the presentations and discussions at the May, 1980 International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics, held at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. This collection focuses primarily on the development of cosmic-ray physics and quantum field theory in the 1930s and 1940s, before the advent of the great postwar accelerators, and draws on research conducted in the United States, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, France, and the USSR.