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Tunnel visions: the rise and fall of the Superconducting Super Collider

Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan a...

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Autores principales: Riordan, Michael, Hoddeson, Lillian, Kolb, Adrienne W
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: University of Chicago Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2034455