Elementary Particles - Paperback

by Enrico Fermi (Author), Thomas Appelquist (Foreword by)

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's Elementary Particles remains a valuable guide for physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundat

Author Biography

Professor of physics at the University of Chicago and a member of the Institute for Nuclear Studies until his death in 1954, Enrico Fermi was awarded the Medal of Merit for his work on the atomic bomb and received the Nobel Prize in 1938 for research in neutron physics. Thomas Appelquist is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.