Stone to Silicon

Math & science · 1964

Quarks

Gell-Mann and Zweig propose that protons and neutrons are made of smaller quarks.

The quark model organised the zoo of hadrons, and deep inelastic scattering at SLAC in 1968 saw point-like constituents inside the proton.

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