{"product_id":"9789814407434","title":"Andrei Sakharov: Quarks And The Structure Of Matter: Quarks and the Structure of Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom. The Soviet father of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel Peace Laureate turned dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, had been exiled to Gorki by the Soviet authorities. Called “senile” and under heavy Soviet censorship, Sakharov had a hard time communicating his latest scientific results to readers outside of Gorki. Some smuggled results reached the author, Harry Lipkin, who then realized that he and Sakharov were both pioneers in a new revolution on our understanding the structure of matter. The particle physics community had resisted their revelation that the accepted building blocks of matter, neutrons and protons, were composed of tinier building blocks called “quarks”. What followed was a remarkable adventure in which both scientists fought the Soviet censors, smuggling postcards and manuscripts into and out of the Soviet Union while trying to further scientific progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst a backdrop of politics, suppression, and genius, \u003ci\u003eAndrei Sakharov, Quarks and the Structure of Matter\u003c\/i\u003e details the search for the basic building blocks of matter, the path to understanding the forces that bind them together, and how scientific knowledge is learned, communicated and passed from one group of investigators to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuarks and Smuggled Postcards from Andrei Sakharov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrei Sakharov and the Weizmann Institute\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Weizmann Institute and the Scientific History of Sakharov's Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Scientists Study Nature — Pure and Applied Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Building Blocks of Matter — What is a Quark?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Forces of Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Weak Force and the Discovery of the W Particle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e General public interested in the quark model and its history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136965886192,"sku":"9789814407434","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814407434_p0.jpg?v=1763691010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814407434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}