The Weinberg-Salam Model of Electroweak Interactions: Ingenious Discovery or Lucky Hunch?
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In: Annalen der Physik, Vol. 530, No. 2, 1700454, 01.02.2018.
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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 -