{"product_id":"pions-to-quarks-particle-physics-in-the-1950s-paperback-9780521100731","title":"Pions to Quarks; Particle Physics in the 1950s (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521100731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePions to Quarks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eParticle Physics in the 1950s\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe historical studies and analyses provided in the volume are unique in their scope and level of detail.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurie Mark Brown (Edited by), Max Dresden (Edited by), Lillian Hoddeson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521100731, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 January 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e768 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.11 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditors 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pions to quarks: particle physics in the 1950s Laurie M Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson\u003cbr\u003e 2. Particle physics in the early 1950s Chen Ning Yang\u003cbr\u003e 3. An historian's interest in particle physics J. L. Heilbron\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Particle discoveries in cosmic rays\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cosmic-ray cloud-chamber contributions to the discovery of the strange particles in the decade 1947–1957 George D. Rochester\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cosmic-ray work with emulsions in the 1940s and 1950s Donald H. Perkins\u003cbr\u003e Part III. High-energy nuclear physics\u003cbr\u003e Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction Robert L. Walker\u003cbr\u003e 7. A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering Robert Hofstadter\u003cbr\u003e 8. Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon Robert G. Sachs and Kameshwar C. Wali\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The new laboratory\u003cbr\u003e 9. The making of an accelerator physicist Matthew Sands\u003cbr\u003e 10. Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s John P. Blewett\u003cbr\u003e 11. Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS Ernest D. Courant\u003cbr\u003e 12. Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s Lawrence W. Jones, Luis W. Alvarez, Ugo Amaldi, Robert Hofstadter, Donald W. Kerst, Robert R. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 13. Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s Donald W. Kerst\u003cbr\u003e 14. Bubbles, sparks and the postwar laboratory Peter Galison\u003cbr\u003e 15. Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s Shuji Fukui\u003cbr\u003e 16. Early work at the Bevatron: a personal account Gerson Goldhaber\u003cbr\u003e 17. The discovery of the antiproton Owen Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003e 18. On the antiproton discovery Oreste Piccioni\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Strange Particles\u003cbr\u003e 19. The hydrogen bubble chamber and the strange resonances Luis W. Alvarez\u003cbr\u003e 20. A particular view of particle physics in the fifties Jack Steinberger\u003cbr\u003e 21. Strange particles William Chinowsky\u003cbr\u003e 22. Strange particles: production by Cosmotron beams as observed in diffusion cloud chambers William B. Fowler\u003cbr\u003e 23. From the 1940s into the 1950s Abraham Pais\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Detection of the neutrino Frederick Reines\u003cbr\u003e 25. Recollections on the establishment of the weak-interaction notion Bruno M. Pontecorvo\u003cbr\u003e 26. Symmetry and conservation laws in particle physics in the fifties Louis Michel\u003cbr\u003e 27. A connection between the strong and weak interactions Sam B. Treiman\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Weak interactions and parity nonconservation\u003cbr\u003e 29. The nondiscovery of parity nonconservation Allan Franklin\u003cbr\u003e 30. K-meson decays and parity violation Richard H. Dalitz\u003cbr\u003e 31. An Experimentalist's Perspective Val L. Fitch\u003cbr\u003e 32. The early experiments leading to the V – A interaction Valentine L. Telegdi\u003cbr\u003e 33. Midcentury adventures in particles physics E. C. G. Sudarshan\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. The particle physics community\u003cbr\u003e 34. The postwar political economy of high-energy physics Robert Seidel\u003cbr\u003e 35. The history of CERN during the early 1950s Edoardo Amaldi\u003cbr\u003e 36. Arguments pro and contra the European laboratory in the participating countries Armin Hermann\u003cbr\u003e 37. Physics and excellences of the life it brings Abdus Salam\u003cbr\u003e 38. Social aspects of Japanese particle physics in the 1950s Michiji Konuma\u003cbr\u003e Part IX. Theories of hadrons\u003cbr\u003e 39. The early S-matrix theory and its propagation (1942–1952) Helmut Rechenberg\u003cbr\u003e 40. From field theory to phenomenology: the history of dispersion relations Andy Pickering\u003cbr\u003e 41. Particles as S-matrix poles: hadron democracy Geoffrey F. Chew\u003cbr\u003e 42. The general theory of quantised fields in the 1950s Arthur S. Wrightman\u003cbr\u003e 43. The classification and structure of hadrons Yuval Ne'eman\u003cbr\u003e 44. Gauge principle, vector-meson dominance and spontaneous symmetry breaking Yoichiro Nambu\u003cbr\u003e Part X. Personal overviews\u003cbr\u003e 45. Scientific impact of the first decade of the Rochester conferences (1950–1960) Robert E. Marshak\u003cbr\u003e 46. Some reflections on the history of particle physics in the 1950s Silvan S. Schweber\u003cbr\u003e 47. 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