In The Particle Hunters, the authors give a non-technical account of the fascinating story of the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. Beginning with the experiments of Thompson and Rutherford at the turn of the century, the book chronicles how physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom, and concludes with an up-to-date description of recent discoveries, including the 'charmed', 'beauty' and 'truth' quarks, the psi and upsilon particles, the tau lepton and the W and Z intermediate ...
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In The Particle Hunters, the authors give a non-technical account of the fascinating story of the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter. Beginning with the experiments of Thompson and Rutherford at the turn of the century, the book chronicles how physicists revealed layer upon layer of structure within the atom, and concludes with an up-to-date description of recent discoveries, including the 'charmed', 'beauty' and 'truth' quarks, the psi and upsilon particles, the tau lepton and the W and Z intermediate vector bosons, the carriers of the weak force. All that is required of the reader is a knowledge of a few basic concepts, such as energy, mass and electric charge. This lucid and entertaining exposition of the search for the ultimate 'elementary' particles, co-authored by a scientist who himself was responsible for many of the major steps forward in the field, will interest anyone wishing to keep pace with the progress of human knowledge, from the scientifically educated general reader, through to the professional physicist.
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Add this copy of The Particle Hunters to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Cambridge University Press.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket Issued. Size: 9x6x0; 1st edition in English, 1986 (originally published in Hebrew in 1983; translated with by the authors with assistance from Esther Berger). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Interior appears free of markings. Light shelfwear to corners, one corner bumped. Exterior looks very nice overall and shelfwear is generally quite minor. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Add this copy of The Particle Hunters to cart. $14.95, good condition, Sold by Sessions Book Sales rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Birmingham, AL, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Cambridge Univ Pr.
Add this copy of Particle Hunters to cart. $184.66, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Cambridge University Press.
