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Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.

Standard model (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Modèle standard (Physique nucléaire) --- Particules (Physique nucléaire) --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- 539.12 --- Elementary particles (Physics) --- High energy physics --- Nuclear particles --- Nucleons --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear models --- Nuclear reactions --- Elementary and simple particles (charge less than 3 including alpha-rays, beta-rays, gamma-rays as individual particles or as radiation) --- 539.12 Elementary and simple particles (charge less than 3 including alpha-rays, beta-rays, gamma-rays as individual particles or as radiation) --- Modèle standard (Physique nucléaire) --- Particules (Physique nucléaire) --- Arts and Humanities

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Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Alamos Project. --- Atomic bomb - New Mexico - Los Alamos - History. --- Los Alamos (N. M.) - History.

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This 1993 volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the 'critical assembly' of scientists, engineers and military personnel at Los Alamos, responding to wartime deadlines, collaborated to create a new approach to large-scale research. The book opens with an introduction laying out major themes. After a synopsis of the prehistory of the bomb project, from the discovery of nuclear fission to the start of the Manhattan Engineer District, and an overview of the early materials programme, the book examines the establishment of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the implosion and gun assembly programmes, nuclear physics research, chemistry and metallurgy, explosives, uranium and plutonium development, confirmation of spontaneous fission in pile-produced plutonium, the thermonuclear bomb, critical assemblies, the Trinity test, and delivery of the combat weapons. Readers interested in history of science will find this volume a crucial resource for understanding the underpinnings of contemporary science and technology.

Atomic bomb --- A-bomb --- Atom bomb --- Bombs --- Nuclear weapons --- History. --- Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory --- Los Alamos (N.M.). --- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. --- LASL --- United States. --- University of California, Berkeley. --- L.A.S.L. --- Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California --- Los Alamos National Laboratory --- Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos Project. --- Los Alamos (N.M.) --- Los Alamos, N.M. --- Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Alamos Project. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Electronics --- Transistors --- History. --- Electronics. --- Elektronik --- Transistorer --- Transistors. --- Électronique --- Historia. --- Histoire.

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