WEINBERG, Steven (1933-2021)
'A Model of Leptons' in: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 19, pp.1264-1266, New York: The American Physical Society, 20 November 1967.
First edition, signed by the author, of the paper that proposed the electroweak theory and predicted the existence of Higgs boson (‘The God Particle’), thus forming the Standard Model of particle physics. For this work, Weinberg was jointly awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1979. On 4 July 2012, the CERN laboratory in Geneva announced the experimental discovery of Higgs boson, thus ‘verifying the Standard Model’s account of how the elementary particles get their masses’ (Weinberg, op-ed, The New York Times, 14 July 2012). The present paper is one of the most-cited articles in physics, with Google Scholar claiming it has been cited 18,565 times.
Quarto (266 x 200mm). Original printed green wrappers (spine a fraction faded). Provenance: Charles M. Sommerfield (theoretical physicist; mailing label on rear wrapper) – authorial inscription on p.1264 by title of paper.
WEINBERG, Steven (1933-2021)
'A Model of Leptons' in: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 19, pp.1264-1266, New York: The American Physical Society, 20 November 1967.
First edition, signed by the author, of the paper that proposed the electroweak theory and predicted the existence of Higgs boson (‘The God Particle’), thus forming the Standard Model of particle physics. For this work, Weinberg was jointly awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1979. On 4 July 2012, the CERN laboratory in Geneva announced the experimental discovery of Higgs boson, thus ‘verifying the Standard Model’s account of how the elementary particles get their masses’ (Weinberg, op-ed, The New York Times, 14 July 2012). The present paper is one of the most-cited articles in physics, with Google Scholar claiming it has been cited 18,565 times.
Quarto (266 x 200mm). Original printed green wrappers (spine a fraction faded). Provenance: Charles M. Sommerfield (theoretical physicist; mailing label on rear wrapper) – authorial inscription on p.1264 by title of paper.
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