Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s

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.

Introduction
Pions to quarks
Particle discoveries in cosmic rays
Cosmic-ray cloud-chamber contributions to the discovery of the strange particles in the decade 1947ndash;1957
Cosmic-ray work with emulsions in the 1940s and 1950s
High-energy nuclear physics
Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction
A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering
Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon
The new laboratory
The making of an accelerator physicist
Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s
Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS
Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s
Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s
Bubbles, sparks and the postwar laboratory
Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s
Early work at the Bevatron
High-energy nuclear physics
Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction
A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering
Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon
The new laboratory
The making of an accelerator physicist
Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s
Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS
Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s
Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s
Bubbles, sparks and the postwar laboratory
Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s
Early work at the Bevatron
The new laboratory
The making of an accelerator physicist
Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s
Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS
Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s
Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s
Bubbles, sparks and the postwar laboratory
Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s
Early work at the Bevatron
The Strange Particles
The hydrogen bubble chamber and the strange resonances
A particular view of particle physics in the fifties
Strange particles
Strange particles
Detection of the neutrino
Recollections on the establishment of the weak-interaction notion
Symmetry and conservation laws in particle physics in the fifties
A connection between the strong and weak interactions
Weak interactions and parity nonconservation
The nondiscovery of parity nonconservation
K-meson decays and parity violation
An Experimentalist's Perspective
The early experiments leading to the V ndash
A interaction
Midcentury adventures in particles physics

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