Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries (An Annotated Chronological Bibliography)

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This annotated, chronological bibliography presents key material on more than 500 seminal papers in particle physics. The work compiles the most influential theoretical and experimental discoveries from the past one hundred years, many of which have been cited for the Nobel prize. Of special interest are the actual excerpts from these original papers. A general introduction places the original articles in historical context. For each entry there is a short description explaining the importance of the discovery, followed by complete bibliographic information, including title, authors, abstracts or excerpts, and references. Readers will find: J.J. Thomson’s original words, written in 1897, announcing the discovery of the first elementary particle, the electron; Einstein’s three world-changing papers of 1905; Dirac’s prediction, in 1931, of the positron; Murray Gell-Mann’s 1964 proposal that hadrons are composite particles; and final confirmation of the quark theory, with the discovery in 1995 of the top quark. A complete chronological listing and author and subject indexes aim to make the book easy to use as a reference.