Palette of Particles

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Bernstein is the author of many books on science for the general reader, including Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element and Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma . He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker . Klappentext Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons, mesons, quarks, and the newly discovered Higgs boson, drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies, the more we discover, the less we seem to know. Zusammenfassung Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons! mesons! quarks! and the newly discovered Higgs boson! drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies! the more we discover! the less we seem to know.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Bernstein, Jeremy Berstien
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072510
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07251-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Belknap Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / History, Science, SCIENCE / Physics / General, History of Science, Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics