The Birth of Particle Physics
T R Barrass · Physics Bulletin · 1984
Laurie M Brown and Lillian Hoddeson (eds) 1983 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xxii + 412 pp price £27.50 ISBN 0 521 24005 0 The editors have brought together in this volume a remarkable collection of essays containing the first-hand impressions of many of the great contributors to the early history of particle physics during the period 1930–50. Their accounts of the intellectual and technical developments are interspersed with personal reflections and comments on peer competition and world politics.