
Fermi was the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1938 for research on neutron physics, and of the Medal of Merit for his work on the U.S. atomic bomb project. This book makes field theories of elementary particles accessible to a larger number of students.

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 foundations of the field from...



Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize for research in neutron physics, makes accessible to the general student of physics the most significant results of the field theories of elementary particles, emphasizing simple, semi-quantitative procedures requiring a minimum of mathematical...