Pions to Quarks Particle Physics in the 1950s Brown Dresden Hoddeson Paperback

Pions to QuarksParticle Physics in the 1950s\nAuthor(s): Laurie Mark Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521100731, 978-0521100731\nSynopsis\nEditors 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 scien.