2nd Edition
The Quark Machines How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition
By G Fraser
Copyright 1997
218 Pages
49 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
218 Pages
by
CRC Press
Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination, The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition covers the history, the politics, and the personalities of particle physics. Extensively illustrated with many original photographs of the key players in the field, the book sheds new light on the sovereignty issues of modern scientific research... Read more
Glossary; Subnuclear liftoff; Exodus; The storm breaks; The grapes of wrath; All we want is the world's biggest machine! The quark in the box; Glued from the spot; Ideas in collision; Vacuum-packed physics; Physics from AA to z; Armageddon in Texas; Last in a line of rings; Financial give and take
Biography
Gordon Fraser
"Fraser gives us an impressionist picture of some of the key people, ideas, and tools that contributed to the Standard Model with bright splotches of colour spread over a broad range of space and time on the backdrop of the major historical events of this century."
-History of Physics Newsletter
"… a careful and fascinating account of particle physics in the 20th Century."
-Christine Sutton, New Scientist
"An account worth having for its record of how the struggle for dominance in fundamental physics looked from the European side. This is a story which includes many of the great moments of 20th-century science."
-The Financial Times
"Fraser presents the history of particle physics from a refreshingly new perspective-that of the machine builders."
-Michael Riordan, CERN Courier
"Fraser shows unusual skill in finding vivid analogies that capture physical pictures without distorting them. In many ways this book complements Abraham Pais' 'Inward Bound.'"
-Gary Feldman, Physics World
