UID:
almafu_9960119749602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxxii, 734 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-56394-9
Inhalt:
Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson have assembled a prestigious group of physicists and historians of science to present a broadly balanced picture of this exciting scientific era that witnessed the coming of age of particle physics and its development into 'big science'. The historical studies and analyses provided in the volume are unique in their scope and level of detail. Major topics and developments addressed include the important experiments and their theoretical explanations, the design and construction of scientific instruments and the establishment of major research centres - especially the national laboratories that played a key role in the transformation of particle physics into 'big science'. These essays also range from sociological analyses of the particle physics subculture and the political aspects of research funding to discussions of symmetry and axiomatic field theory.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Particle discoveries in cosmic rays -- pt. 3. High-energy nuclear physics -- pt. 4. The new laboratory -- pt. 5. The strange particles -- pt. 6. Weak interactions -- pt. 7. Weak interactions and parity nonconservation -- pt. 8. The particle physics community -- pt. 9. Theories of hadrons -- pt. 10. Personal overviews.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-10073-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-30984-0
Sprache:
Englisch
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