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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 539.74
EAN num: 9780521578165
ISBN number: 0521578167
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Page Count: 748
Printing Date: November 13, 1997
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Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this book gives the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of an exciting physics revolution--the rise of the Standard Model. The third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics, this volume focuses on 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. A collaboration of physicists and historians of science, 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.
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While the essays perhaps strive to reach a wide audience, the reality is that the typical reader will likely be a physicist or student of science history. If this fits your background, then the book is indeed an informative account of how the so-called Standard Model arose.
Much of the book's value is that several authors were key participants in the development of the Standard Model. Foremost might be Murray Gell-Mann. But let's not forget Weinberg and Lederman. Future historians can see here in the words of these men how pivotal ideas arose and gelled into an overarching and still dominant framework unifying much of physics.
We also see how the expensive particle accelerators proved their worth. (At least to physicists!) In providing experimental evidence of particles predicted or explained by the Standard Model.
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