Book ID: CBB000063700

Pions to quarks: Particle physics in the 1950s (1989)

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Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1989
Edition Details: Based on a Fermilab symposium. Editors: Brown, Laurie M., Dresden, Max, Hoddeson, Lillian. Editorial assistant, May West.
Physical Details: xxxii + 734 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Brown, Laurie M., Dresden, Max, Hoddeson, Lillian: Pions to quarks: Particle physics in the 1950s. Chen, Ning Yang: Particle physics in the early 1950s. Heilbron, John L.: An historian's interest in particle physics. Rochester, George D.: Cosmic-ray cloud-chamber contributions to the discovery of the strange particles in the decade 1947-1957. Perkins, Donald H.: Cosmic-ray work with emulsions in the 1940s and 1950s. Walker, Robert L.: Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction. Hofstadter, Robert: A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering. Sachs, Robert G., Wali, Kameshwar C.: Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon. Sands, Matthew: The making of an accelerator physicist. Blewett, John P.: Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s. Courant, Ernest D.: Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS at Brookhaven. Jones, Lawrence W. (et al.): Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s. Kerst, Donald W.: Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s. Galison, Peter: Bubbles, sparks, and the postwar laboratory. Fukui, Shuji: Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s. Goldhaber, Gerson: Early work at the Bevatron: A personal account. Chamberlain, Owen: The discovery of the antiproton. Piccioni, Oreste: On the antiproton discovery. Alvarez, Luis W.: The hydrogen bubble chamber and the strange resonances. Steinberger, Jack: A particular view of particle physics in the fifties. Chinowsky, William: Strange particles. Fowler, William B.: Strange particles: Production by Cosmotron beams as observed in diffusion cloud chambers. Pais, Abraham: From the 1940s into the 1950s. Reines, Frederick: Detection of the neutrino. Pontecorvo, Bruno M.: Recollections on the establishment of the weak-interaction notion. Michel, Louis: Symmetry and conservation laws in particle physics in the fifties. Treiman, Sam B.: A connection between the strong and weak interactions. White, Hywel D., Sullivan, Daniel: The weak interactions from 1950 to 1960: A quantitative bibliometric study of the formation of a field. Franklin, Allan: The nondiscovery of parity nonconservation. Dalitz, Richard H.: K-meson decays and parity violation. Fitch, Val L.: The tau-theta puzzle: An experimentalist's perspective. Telegdi, Valentine L.: The early experiments leading to the V-A interaction. Sudarshan, E.C.G.: Midcentury adventures in particle physics. Seidel, Robert: The postwar political economy of high-enery physics. Amaldi, Edoardo: The history of CERN during the early 1950s. Hermann, Armin: Arguments pro and contra the European laboratory in the participating countries. Salam, Abdus: Physics and the excellences of the life it brings. Konuma, Michiji: Social aspects of Japanese particle physics in the 1950s. Rechenberg, Helmut: The early S-matrix theory and its propagation (1942-1952). Pickering, Andy: From field theory to phenomenology: The history of dispersion relations. Chew, Geoffrey F.: Particles as S-matrix poles: Hadron democracy. Wightman, Arthur S.: The general theory of quantized fields in the 1950s. Ne'eman, Yuval: The classification and structure of hadrons. Nambu, Yoichiro: Gauge principle, vector-meson dominance, and spontaneous symmetry breaking. Marshak, Robert E.: Scientific impact of the first decade of the Rochester conferences (1950-1960). Schweber, Silvan S.: Some reflections on the history of particle physics in the 1950s. Gell-Mann, Murray: Progress in elementary particle theory, 1950-1964.


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