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Articles

Particle Physics Articles

E. Bloom and G. Feldman,
       Quarkonium, Scientific American (May 1982) p. 66.
J. Boslough,
       Worlds Within the Atom, National Geographic (May 1985) p. 634.
D. Cline, C. Rubbia, and S. van der Meer,
       The Search for Intermediate Vector Bosons, Scientific American (March 1982) p. 48.
D. Cline,
       Low Energy Ways to Observe High Energy Phenomena, Scientific American (September 1994).
F.E. Close and P.R. Page,
       Glueballs, Scientific American (November 1998) p. 52.
J.W. Cronin, S.P. Swordy and T.K. Gaisser,
       Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier, Scientific American (January 1997) p. 44.
M.J. Duff,
       The Theory Formerly Known as Strings, Scientific American (February 1998) p. 64.
H. Georgi,
       A Unified Theory of Elementary Particles and Forces, Scientific American (April 1981) p. 48.
C. Grab, H. Breuker, H. Drevermann, and A.A. Rademaker,
       Tracking and Imaging of Elementary Particles, Scientific American (August 1991) p. 42.
H. Harari,
       The Structure of Quarks and Leptons, Scientific American (April 1983) p. 56.
R.C. Howis and H. Kragh,
       P.A.M. Dirac and the Beauty of Physics, Scientific American (May 1993) p. 62.
M. Kaku,
       Into the Eleventh Dimension, New Scientist (January 18, 1997) p. 32.
A.M. Litke and A.S. Schwarz,
       The Silicon Microchip Detector, Scientific American (February, 1994) p. 56.
C. Mann,
       Armies of Physicists Struggle to Discover Proof of a Scot's Brainchild, Smithsonian (March 1989) pp. 106-117.
C. Quigg,
       Elementary Particles and Forces, Scientific American (April 1985) p. 84.
C. Quigg,
       Top-ology, Physics Today (May 1997) p. 20.
H.R. Quinn and M.S. Witherell,
       The Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter, Scientific American (October 1998) p. 76.
C. Sutton,
       Subatomic Forces, New Scientist (February 11, 1989) p. 1.
C. Sutton,
       Four Fundamental Forces, New Scientist (November 19, 1988) p. 1.
C. Sutton,
       The Secret Life of the Neutrino, New Scientist (January 14, 1988) p. 53.
M. Veltman,
       The Higgs Boson, Scientific American (November 1986) p. 76.
S. Weinberg,
       The Discovery of Subatomic Particles, Scientific American (1983) p. 206.
S. Weinberg,
       A Unified Physics by 2050?, Scientific American (December 1999).
D.H. Weingarten,
       Computing Quarks, Scientific American (February 1996) p. 116.
E. Witten,
       Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics, Physics Today (May 1997) p. 28.
E. Witten,
       Reflections on the Fate of Spacetime, Physics Today (April 1996) p. 24.
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H. Winick,
       Synchrotron Radiation, Scientific American (November 1987) p. 88.
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Cosmology Articles

J.N. Bahcall and F. Halzen,
       Neutrino Astronomy: The Sun and Beyond, Physics World (September 1996) p. 41.
N. Bahcall, J.P. Ostriker, S. Perlmutter, and P.J. Steinhardt,
       The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe, Science (May 1999) p. 1481.
S.G. Brush,
       How Cosmology Became a Science, Scientific American (August 1992) p. 34.
M.A. Bucher and D.N. Spergel,
       Inflation in a Low-Density Universe, Scientific American (January 1999) p. 62.
W. Freedmann,
       The Expansion Rate and the Size of the Universe, Scientific American (July 1993) p. 70.
R. Gore,
       The Once and Future Universe, National Geographic (June 1983) p. 704.
C.J. Hogan, R.P. Kirshner, and N.B. Suntzeff,
       Surveying Space-time with Supernovae, Scientific American (January 1999) p. 46.
R. Irion,
       The Lopsided Universe, New Scientist (February 1999) p. 26.
L.M. Krauss,
       Cosmological Antigravity, Scientific American (January 1999) p. 52.
L.M. Krauss and G.D. Starkman,
       The Fate of Life in the Universe, Scientific American (November 1999) p. 58.
D.E. Osterbrock, J.A. Gwinn, and R.S. Brashear,
       Hubble and the Expansion of the Universe, Scientific American (November 1992) p. 30.
D. Schramm and G. Steigman,
       Particle Accelerators Test Cosmological Theory, Scientific American (June 1988) p. 66.
C. Sutton,
       Cosmic Changelings, New Scientist (March 16, 1996) p. 28.
M.S. Turner,
       Cosmology: Going Beyond the Big Bang, Physics World (September 1996) p. 31.
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Books

Particle Physics Books

R.K. Adair,
      The Great Design: Particles, Fields and Creation (University Press, 1987).
I. Asimov,
      Atom: Journey across the Subatomic Cosmos (Truman Talley Books, 1991).
L. Brown and L. Hoddeson, Eds.,
      The Birth of Particle Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
B. Bunch,
      Reality's Mirror: Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry (Wiley Science Editions, 1989).
R.N. Cahn and G. Goldhaber,
      The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
N. Calder,
      The Key to the Universe (Penguin Books, 1978).
R. Carrigan and P. Trower, Ed.,
      Particles and Forces at the Heart of Matter,
      Readings from Scientific American (Freeman, 1990).
C. Caso, et al., (Particle Data Group)
      Particle Physics Booklet (Springer Verlag, 1998).
F. Close, M. Marten, and C. Sutton,
      The Particle Explosion (Oxford University Press, 1987).
R.P. Crease, C.C. Mann, and T. Ferris
      The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th Century Physics (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1996).
P.C.W. Davies,
      The Forces of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
B. Devine and F. Wilczek,
      Longing for the Harmonies (Norton, 1988).
G. Fraser,
      The Particle Century (Institute of Physics, 1998).
G. Fraser,
      The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War (Institute of Physics, 1997).
G. Fraser, E. Lillestoel, and I. Sellevag,
      The Search for Infinity: Solving the Mysteries of the Universe (Facts on File, 1995).
H. Fritzsch,
      The Creation of Matter: The Universe from Beginning to End (Basic Books, 1984. Translated from German 1981).
S. Glashow,
      Interactions: A Journey through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of this World (Warner, 1988).
J. Gribbin,
      Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics (Free Press, 1999).
J.R. Gribbin,
      The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything (Little Brown, 1999).
A.H. Guth and A.P. Lightman,
      The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (Perseus Press, 1998).
M. Kaku,
      Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (Oxford Univ. Press, 1994).
G. Kane,
      The Particle Garden (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995).
L.M. Krauss,
      Fear of Physics (Basic Books, 1993).
L.M. Lederman,
      The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What Is the Question? (Houghton Mifflin, 1993).
L.M. Lederman and D.N. Schramm,
      From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (Scientific American Library, Freeman, 1989).
J.H. Mauldin,
      Particles in Nature: The Chronological Discovery of the New Physics (Tab Books, 1986).
Y. Ne'eman and Y. Kirsh,
      The Particle Hunters (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
L.B. Okun,
      alpha, beta, gamma ... Z, A Primer in Particle Physics (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987).
H. Pagels,
      Perfect Symmetry (Simon & Schuster, 1985).
A. Pais,
      Inward Bound--Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (Oxford University Press, 1988).
M. Riordan,
      The Hunting of the Quark (Simon & Schuster, 1987).
M. Riordan and D.N. Schramm,
      Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe (Scientific American Library, Freeman, 1991).
C. Schwarz,
      A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo (American Institute of Physics, 1992).
E. Segre,
      From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries (W.H. Freeman, 1980).
G. Smoot and K. Davidson,
      Wrinkles in Time (Avon Books, 1994).
N. Solomey,
      The Elusive Neutrino: A Subatomic Detective Story (Scientific American Library Series, 1997).
C. Sutton,
      Spaceship Neutrino (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
S.J. Traweek,
      Beamtimes and Lifetimes (Harvard University Press, 1986).
J.S. Trefil,
      From Atoms to Quarks (Doubleday, 1994).
P. Watkins,
      Story of the W and Z (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
S. Weinberg,
      Dreams of a Final Theory (Pantheon, 1992).
A. Zee,
      Fearful Symmetry (Macmillan, 1986).
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Cosmology Books

J.D. Barrow and J. Silk,
      The Left Hand of Creation (Oxford Univ. Press, 1994).
F. Close,
      The Cosmic Onion (Springer-Verlag, 1986).
T. Ferris,
      Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Morrow, 1988).
D. Goldsmith,
      Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant and Other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe (Harvard University Press, 1995).
B. Greene,
      The Elegant Universe: Superstring, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (W.W. Norton, 1999).
S.W. Hawking,
      A Brief History of Time (Bantam, 1988).
L.M. Krauss,
      The Fifth Essence; The Search for Dark Matter in the Universe (Basic Books, 1989).
L.A. Marschall,
      The Supernova Story (Plenum Press,1988).
H. Pagels,
      The Cosmic Code (Simon & Schuster, 1982).
M. Roos,
      Introduction to Cosmology (Wiley, 1994).
J. Silk,
      The Big Bang (Freeman, 1989).
S. Weinberg,
      The First Three Minutes (Basic Books, 1977).
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