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  3. The Rise of the Standard Model
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2010
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511471094
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511471094
Subjects:
History of Science and Technology, Physics and Astronomy, History, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
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Book description

Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. 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. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. 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.

Reviews

‘… a beautifully produced collection of essays by most of the leading scientists involved - including no fewer than eight Nobel laureates - and several eminent historians … both practitioners and knowledgeable bystanders can draw inspiration from these reflections on what may turn out to have been the golden age of particle physics.’

Graham Farmelo Source: New Scientist

‘The volume is informative and useful to historians of physics.’

Helge Kragh Source: Centaurus

‘… this book is … worthwhile , timely and valuable.’

R. Barlow Source: European Journal of Physics

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Contents
  • 28 - Panel Session: Spontaneous Breaking of Symmetry
    pp 478-522
    • By Laurie M. Brown, Born Brooklyn, New York, 1923; Ph.D., 1951 (physics), Cornell University; Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University; high-energy physics (theory) and history of physics., Robert Brout, Born New York City, 1928; Ph.D., 1953 (physics), Columbia University; Professor of Physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; statistical mechanics and high-energy physics (theory)., Tian Yu Cao, Born Shanghai, China, 1941; Ph.D., 1987 (history and philosophy of science), University of Cambridge; Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston University; history and philosophy of science., Peter Higgs, Born Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 1929; Ph.D., 1954 (physics), King's College, London; Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh; high-energy physics (theory)., Yoichiro Nambu, Born Tokyo, Japan, 1921; Sc.D., 1952 (theoretical physics), University of Tokyo; Professor Emeritus of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago; high-energy physics (theory).

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