What are the particles? How they can be revealed? How they have been developed? How is organized the experimental research of particles? To these and other questions the book try to answer in a simple but extremely accurate language.
This book is a journey from Greek atomism to modern era about microscopic components of matter. Of this journey, lasted over two thousands years, he analyses above all the more recent period, when human beings, after discovering the existence of the atom, started exploring the wonderful world of elementary particles, from a social, scientific and technological point of view.
Mario Grilli has been Professor of Physics at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He conducted research in the field of elementary particles and in the History of Physics. He is the author of several works academic, as well as in popular science. Among his publications:Beyond the atom. One Hundred Years of particles(2002) andImago Mundi(2008).