Frontiers Of Particle Physics

Download or read book Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics written by Yoichiro Nambu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.