The Discovery of Subatomic Particles Revised Edition
The Discovery of Subatomic Particles Revised Edition
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USDThis commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents provides an historical account of key events in the physics of the twentieth century that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. Steven Weinberg introduces the fundamentals of classical physics that played crucial roles in these discoveries. Connections are shown throughout the book between the historic discoveries of subatomic particles and contemporary research at the frontiers of physics, including the most current discoveries of new elementary particles.
Steven Weinberg was Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard before moving to The University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group. At Texas he holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science and is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research has spanned a broad range of topics in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology, and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics, the Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Madison Medal of Princeton University, and the Oppenheimer Prize. In addition to the well-known treatise, Gravitation and Cosmololgy, he has written several books for general readers, including the prize-winning The First Three Minutes (now translated into 22 foreign languages), and most recently Dreams of a Final Theory (Pantheon Books, 1993). He has also written a textbook The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol.I, Vol. II, and Vol. III (Cambridge).
- Fascinating story of the atom's constituents, told by Nobel prize-winning physicist and author of The First Three Minutes
- Provides a non-mathematical introduction to fundamental physics, suitable for use on courses for students not specializing in science
- Fully revised, this edition shows the connections between the historic discoveries of subatomic particles and work today at the frontiers of physics
Reviews & endorsements
"A beautiful example of a new approach with which the nonscientist can attain literacy in physics." Physics Today
"It is a happy fact that some of the greatest scientists have been skilled expositors of their subject for nonscientific audiences. Einstein, Eddington, and Feynman come to mind. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Laureate and brilliantly contemporary theorist, belongs in this company...It is ideally suited to inspire a next generation of physicists." American Journal of Physics
"Weinberg takes the reader through a brief history of electric forces from Coulomb to Faraday, enabling him to calculate the deflection from first principles. This is a remarkably painless and successful way to teach the basic ideas of physics...The book, with its splendid photographs...is authentically Weinberg--very much reminiscent of his earlier brilliant exposition The First Three Minutes." The Times (UK)
"Weinberg is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretician, and this book can be recommended without reservation. Highly recommended." Choice
Product details
September 2003Hardback
9780521823517
222 pages
237 × 164 × 20 mm
0.517kg
51 b/w illus. 11 tables
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the revised edition
- 1. A world of particles
- 2. The discovery of the electron
- 3. The atomic scale
- 4. The nucleus
- 5. More particles
- Appendices.
