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The quark machines / Gordon Fraser.

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viii, 210 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Throughout the twentieth century, Europe and the United States have vied for supremacy of subnuclear physics. Initially, the advent of the Second World War and an enforced exodus of scientific talent from Europe boosted American efforts. Then, buoyed along by the need to develop the bomb and the ensuing distrust of the Cold War, the USA vaulted into a commanding role - a position which it retained for almost fifty years. Throughout this period, each new particle accelerator was a major campaign, each new particle a battle won.
With the end of the Cold War, US pre-eminence evaporated and Europe re-took the advantage. Now CERN, for four decades the spearhead of the European fightback, stands as the leading global particle physics centre. Today, particle physics is at a turning point in its history - how well Europe retains its advantage remains to be seen. Now, for the first time, the story of this transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination can be told. Gordon Fraser, editor of CERN's in-house magazine, recounts the history, the politics and the personalities of particle physics in an absorbing tale which sheds new light on the sovereignty issues of modern scientific research, as well as the insights it has produced.

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ISBN

0750304472 (pbk.)

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^^^97014853^

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Harvard Library