Book ID: CBB361826048

Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey: From Death Rays to Antimatter (2022)

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This book tells the story of a unique scientific and human adventure, following the life and science of Bruno Touschek, an Austrian born physicist, who conceived and built AdA, the first matter-antimatter colliding-beam storage ring, the ancestor of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012. Making extensive use of archival sources and personal correspondence, the author offers for the first time a unified history of European efforts to build modern-day particle accelerators, from the dark times of war-ravaged Europe up to the rebuilding of science in Germany, UK, Italy and France through the 1950s and early 1960s. This book, the result of several years of scholarly research work, includes numerous previously unpublished photos as well as original drawings by Bruno Touschek.

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Authors & Contributors
Wittje, Roland
Altshuler, N. S.
Baracca, Angelo
Berkelman, Karl
Fraser, Gordon
Hallonsten, Olof
Journals
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Physics in Perspective
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Publishers
World Scientific
Taylor & Francis
Arkiv Förlag
Harvard University Physics Department
Institute of Physics Publishing
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Particle accelerators
Physics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Biographies
Big science
People
Altshuler, Semen Aleksandrovich
Bell, John Stewart
Kohn, Walter
Nishina, Yoshio
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Austria
Soviet Union
Norway
Vienna (Austria)
Northern Ireland
Institutions
Akademiia Nauk SSSR
Cornell University
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Harvard University
Universitet Kazan
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
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