TY - JOUR

T1 - The Weinberg-Salam Model of Electroweak Interactions

T2 - Ingenious Discovery or Lucky Hunch?

AU - Borrelli, Arianna

PY - 2018/2/1

Y1 - 2018/2/1

N2 - This contribution looks back at the papers published fifty years ago by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg, which are today regarded as marking the coming-to-be of the Weinberg-Salam model of electroweak interactions. Despite their present fame, at the time of their publication the papers went largely unnoticed. Reconstructing the historical context from which they emerged will show how, against the traditional image of theoretical physicists as “lone geniuses,” the Weinberg-Salam model actually came to be thanks to the interplay of many different actors and ideas.

AB - This contribution looks back at the papers published fifty years ago by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg, which are today regarded as marking the coming-to-be of the Weinberg-Salam model of electroweak interactions. Despite their present fame, at the time of their publication the papers went largely unnoticed. Reconstructing the historical context from which they emerged will show how, against the traditional image of theoretical physicists as “lone geniuses,” the Weinberg-Salam model actually came to be thanks to the interplay of many different actors and ideas.

KW - History

KW - Philosophy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041202622&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/andp.201700454

DO - 10.1002/andp.201700454

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85041202622

VL - 530

JO - Annalen der Physik

JF - Annalen der Physik

SN - 0003-3804

IS - 2

M1 - 1700454

ER -