Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511563942

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.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Foreword by Leon M. Lederman
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Editors' acknowledgments
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Photographs of the symposium
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List of abbreviations
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List of notation
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I - Introduction
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1 - Pions to quarks: particle physics in the 1950s
pp 3-39
- By Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson
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2 - Particle physics in the early 1950s
pp 40-46
- By Chen Ning Yang
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3 - An historian's interest in particle physics
pp 47-54
- By J. L. Heilbron
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II - Particle discoveries in cosmic rays
pp 55-56
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4 - Cosmic-ray cloud-chamber contributions to the discovery of the strange particles in the decade 1947–1957
pp 57-88
- By George D. Rochester
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5 - Cosmic-ray work with emulsions in the 1940s and 1950s
pp 89-108
- By Donald H. Perkins
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III - High-energy nuclear physics
pp 109-110
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6 - Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction
pp 111-125
- By Robert L. Walker
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7 - A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering
pp 126-143
- By Robert Hofstadter
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8 - Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon
pp 144-146
- By Robert G. Sachs, Kameshwar C. Wali
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IV - The new laboratory
pp 147-148
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9 - The making of an accelerator physicist
pp 149-161
- By Matthew Sands
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10 - Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s
pp 162-179
- By John P. Blewett
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11 - Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS at Brookhaven
pp 180-184
- By Ernest D. Courant
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12 - Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s
pp 185-201
- By Lawrence W. Jones, Luis W. Alvarez, Ugo Amaldi, Robert Hofstadter, Donald W. Kerst, Robert R. Wilson
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13 - Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s
pp 202-212
- By Donald W. Kerst
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14 - Bubbles, sparks, and the postwar laboratory
pp 213-251
- By Peter Galison
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15 - Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s
pp 252-259
- By Shuji Fukui
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16 - Early work at the Bevatron: a personal account
pp 260-272
- By Gerson Goldhaber
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17 - The discovery of the antiproton
pp 273-284
- By Owen Chamberlain
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18 - On the antiproton discovery
pp 285-296
- By Oreste Piccioni
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