The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960's and 1970's

Based On A Conference Held At Stanford University, This Is The Third Volume Of A Series Recounting The History Of Particle Physics And Offers The Most Up-to-date Account Of The Rise Of The Standard Model, Which Explains The Microstructure Of The World In Terms Of Quarks And Leptons And Their Interactions. 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. 1. The Rise Of The Standard Model: 1964-1979 / Laurie M. Brown, Michael Riordan And Max Dresden [and Others] -- 2. Changing Attitudes And The Standard Model / Steven Weinberg -- 3. Two Previous Standard Models / J.l. Heilbron -- 4. From The Psi To Charmed Mesons: Three Years With The Slac-lbl Detector At Spear / Gerson Goldhaber -- 5. The Discovery Of The Tau Lepton / Martin Perl -- 6. The Discovery Of The Upsilon, Bottom Quark, And B Mesons / Leon M. Lederman -- 7. The Discovery Of Cp Violation / James Cronin -- 8. Flavor Mixing And Cp Violation / Makoto Kobayashi -- 9. The Path To Renormalizability / Martinus Veltman -- 10. Renormalization Of Gauge Theories / Gerard 't Hooft. Edited By Lillian Hoddeson ... [et Al.]. 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. "Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET In the late 1970s elementary particle physicists began speaking of the "Standard Model" as the basic theory of matter.