The Elusive Neutrino

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Greek Origins
19th Century Revival
The Electron
Isotopes
Wave Character of the Electron
Spin
The Neutron
Transformation of Particles
JUST GIVE THE NEWS
The Photon
Electromagnetic Properties
Interactions
Mass
Spin
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Experimental Method
Conservation Laws
Quantitative Study of Radioactive Nuclei Decay
Paradox of the Energy-Momentum Balance
Enrico Fermi's Little Neutral One
Particle-Antiparticle
The Conservation of Leptons
The Fall of Parity
THERE ARE FOUR OF THEM!
Neutrino Catching
Cowan-Reines Experiments
Conservation of Lepton Number in Neutrino Reactions
Hideki Yukawa and the Strong Interactions
The Muon and the Conservation Laws
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR
READING LIST



Jeremy Bernstein is that unique combination-a physicist and a writer who can write about science for the general public. In his own words, "Theoretical physics gives me joy; writing gives me pleasure." Since 1961 he has been on the staff of The New Yorker, where he has written book reviews, profiles (Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick), and articles on science and mountain climbing. His published works include four collections of his New Yorker articles.
In 1964 he was awarded the Westinghouse Prize for Science Writing, he was later awarded the 1970 American Institute of Physics-U. S. Steel Foundation Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy for The Elusive Neutrino. The award was made for "noteworthy writing about physics and astronomy in the media of mass communications."
Dr. Bernstein received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He has been research associate at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. On a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, he traveled to Paris, Vienna, and Geneva, and has also worked as a physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Dr. Bernstein is now professor of physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology.