Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-

A palette of particles / Jeremy Bernstein. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. - vi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Includes index.

Primary colors. The neutron ; The neutrino ; The electron and the photon -- Secondary colors. The pion and the muon ; The antiparticle ; Strange particles ; The quark -- Pastels. The Higgs boson ; Neutrino cosmology ; Squarks, tachyons, and the graviton -- L'envoi -- Appendix 1. Accelerators and detectors -- Appendix 2. Grand Unification -- Appendix 3. Neutrino oscillations.

A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists.

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