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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

Further reading
 

Information on the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Close, Frank: The Cosmic Onion. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd 1985, Chap. 6.

Kendall, Henry W. & Panofsky, Wolfgang: The structure of the proton and the neutron. Scientific American, June 1971, Vol 224, No 6, page 60.

Lederman, Leon M. & Schramm, David N.: Experimental verification of quarks. From Quarks to the Cosmos. Scientific American Library 1989.

  

Contents:
Introduction »
Breakthrough in our understanding of the inner structure of matter »
The history of particles »
The SLAC-MIT experiment »
The deep inelastic collision »
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