Fundamental particles and their interactions

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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: This book introduces two major issues in the current microscopic world—fundamental particles and their interactions—through several lectures by the renowned Chinese-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Chen Ning Yang. In A Brief History of the Discovery of Fundamental Particles, the author narrates the important discoveries in the field of fundamental particle physics since the 1960s in chronological order, with a particular focus on the conservation of parity. After the lectures were compiled and published, negotiations for translation into Russian, German, and Italian were initiated. To provide a comprehensive understanding of these two major issues in microscopic physics, the book also collects the author's Nobel Prize speech and related content, which involve some of the most prominent and profound questions in fundamental particle physics. However, these lectures were specifically tailored for an audience with some interest in science, written in a fluent and accessible manner, and do not require readers to possess advanced knowledge of physics.