Pions to Quarks
Particle Physics in the 1950s

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
1. Pions to quarks: particle physics in the 1950s Laurie M Brown, Max Dresden and Lillian Hoddeson
2. Particle physics in the early 1950s Chen Ning Yang
3. An historian's interest in particle physics J. L. Heilbron
Part II. Particle discoveries in cosmic rays
4. Cosmic-ray cloud-chamber contributions to the discovery of the strange particles in the decade 1947–1957 George D. Rochester
5. Cosmic-ray work with emulsions in the 1940s and 1950s Donald H. Perkins
Part III. High-energy nuclear physics
Learning about nucleon resonances with pion photoproduction Robert L. Walker
7. A personal view of nucleon structure as revealed by electron scattering Robert Hofstadter
8. Comments on electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon Robert G. Sachs and Kameshwar C. Wali
Part IV. The new laboratory
9. The making of an accelerator physicist Matthew Sands
10. Accelerator design and construction in the 1950s John P. Blewett
11. Early history of the Cosmotron and AGS Ernest D. Courant
12. Panel on accelerators and detectors in the 1950s Lawrence W. Jones, Luis W. Alvarez, Ugo Amaldi, Robert Hofstadter, Donald W. Kerst, Robert R. Wilson
13. Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s Donald W. Kerst
14. Bubbles, sparks and the postwar laboratory Peter Galison
15. Development of the discharge (spark) chamber in Japan in the 1950s Shuji Fukui
16. Early work at the Bevatron: a personal account Gerson Goldhaber
17. The discovery of the antiproton Owen Chamberlain
18. On the antiproton discovery Oreste Piccioni
Part V. The Strange Particles
19. The hydrogen bubble chamber and the strange resonances Luis W. Alvarez
20. A particular view of particle physics in the fifties Jack Steinberger
21. Strange particles William Chinowsky
22. Strange particles: production by Cosmotron beams as observed in diffusion cloud chambers William B. Fowler
23. From the 1940s into the 1950s Abraham Pais
Part VI. Detection of the neutrino Frederick Reines
25. Recollections on the establishment of the weak-interaction notion Bruno M. Pontecorvo
26. Symmetry and conservation laws in particle physics in the fifties Louis Michel
27. A connection between the strong and weak interactions Sam B. Treiman
Part VII. Weak interactions and parity nonconservation
29. The nondiscovery of parity nonconservation Allan Franklin
30. K-meson decays and parity violation Richard H. Dalitz
31. An Experimentalist's Perspective Val L. Fitch
32. The early experiments leading to the V – A interaction Valentine L. Telegdi
33. Midcentury adventures in particles physics E. C. G. Sudarshan
Part VIII. The particle physics community
34. The postwar political economy of high-energy physics Robert Seidel
35. The history of CERN during the early 1950s Edoardo Amaldi
36. Arguments pro and contra the European laboratory in the participating countries Armin Hermann
37. Physics and excellences of the life it brings Abdus Salam
38. Social aspects of Japanese particle physics in the 1950s Michiji Konuma
Part IX. Theories of hadrons
39. The early S-matrix theory and its propagation (1942–1952) Helmut Rechenberg
40. From field theory to phenomenology: the history of dispersion relations Andy Pickering
41. Particles as S-matrix poles: hadron democracy Geoffrey F. Chew
42. The general theory of quantised fields in the 1950s Arthur S. Wrightman
43. The classification and structure of hadrons Yuval Ne'eman
44. Gauge principle, vector-meson dominance and spontaneous symmetry breaking Yoichiro Nambu
Part X. Personal overviews
45. Scientific impact of the first decade of the Rochester conferences (1950–1960) Robert E. Marshak
46. Some reflections on the history of particle physics in the 1950s Silvan S. Schweber
47. Progress in elementary particle theory 1950–1964 Murray Gell-Mann.

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