Nobel Prize for Physics 2004: Readings from the Physics Today Archive

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 jointly to

"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"

Below will be a collection of Physics Today articles that provide background to the award. More articles will appear during the next few days.

Last update: 5 October, 2004, 17:54 EST.

To read most of the files you will need an Adobe PDF reader version 5.

References recommended by the Nobel Foundation website

QCD Made Simple
Frank Wilczek
August 2000, page 22

Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Comes of Age
Carleton DeTar and Steven Gottlieb
February 2004, page 45

Additional references recommended by Physics Today

Asymptotic Freedom Invoked to Explain SLAC Scaling
Gloria B. Lubkin
January 1974, page 17

Nobel Prizes to Glashow, Salam and Weinberg for Physics...
Gloria B. Lubkin
December 1979, page 17

Quarks, Atoms, and the 1/N Expansion
Edward Witten
July 1980, page 38

Unified Theory of Elementary-Particle Forces
Howard Georgi and Sheldon L. Glashow
September 1980, page 30

A New Level of Structure
O. W. Greenberg
September 1985, page 22

Flavor Su(3) Symmetries in Particle Physics
Howard Georgi
April 1988, page 29

Friedman, Kendall and Taylor Win Nobel Prize for First Quark Evidence
Gloria B. Lubkin
January 1991, page 17

Unification of Couplings part 1 part 2 part 3
Savas Dimopoulos, Stuart A. Raby and Frank Wilczek
October 1991, page 25

ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory, Vols. 1 and 2
M. A. Shifman
Reviewed by Frank Wilczek
August 2000, page 46

Scaling Mount Planck I: A View from the Bottom
Frank Wilczek
June 2001, page 12

What Have We Learned From the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?
Thomas Ludlam and Larry McLerran
October 2003, page 48

Whence the Force of F = ma?
I: Culture Shock
Frank Wilczek
October 2004, page 11