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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992

Further reading

Frank Close: The Particle Explosion. Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1987

Christine Sutton: The Particle Connection: The Discovery of the Missing Links of Nuclear Physics. Hutchinson, 1984

Christine Sutton, ed.: Building the Universe. Basil Blackwell/New Scientist, 1985

Information about the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Contents:
Introduction »
Observing the interior of matter »
The electron avalanche in the detector »
Six quarks and six leptons »
The multiwire chamber »
The multiwire chamber in action »
Further reading »
Based on materials from the 1992 Nobel Poster for Physics.
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