By Ernest M Henley and Stephen D Ellis (eds.)
World Scientific
Hardback: £58
Paperback: £32
E-book: £24
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By 1911, radioactivity had been discovered for more than a decade but its origin remained a mystery. Ernest Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus and the subsequent discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick started the field of subatomic physics – a quest to understand the fundamental constituents of matter. This book reviews the important achievements in subatomic physics in the past century. The chapters are divided into two parts – nuclear physics and particle physics – with contributions by many eminent researchers, from Steven Weinberg’s overview of the subject to John Schwarz on string theory and M-theory.
