Who discovered quarks?

• Autores: Martin Counihan
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 786-789
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Quarks are fundamental to our understanding of the universe. The devising of the quark model, its experimental confirmation, and its eventual integration into the “Standard Model” of elementary particles was one of the outstanding achievements of 20th-century physics. It is surprising, therefore, that confusion has arisen about how quarks were actually “discovered”, i.e. how experimental evidence led the scientific community to accept the real existence of quarks. A myth has emerged that the existence of quarks did not become accepted until after 1968, and then primarily as a result of the deep inelastic electron-proton experiments at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. This view was bolstered by the award of the Nobel Prize in 1990 to Friedman, Kendall and Taylor. The “SLAC myth” has been perpetuated in textbooks of physics, in Wikipedia, and elsewhere.