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Some milestones<br />

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) (1950’s) (Feynman,<br />

Schwinger, Tomonaga)<br />

electroweak unification – the standard model (1960s)<br />

(Glashow, Weinberg, Salam)<br />

deep inelastic scattering experiments – partons<br />

(SLAC/MIT) (1956 – 1973)<br />

Quark Model (1964) (Gell-Mann, Zweig)<br />

Quantum Chromodynamics (1970s) (Gross, Wilczek,<br />

Politzer)<br />

neutral weak current (1973) (Gargamelle, CERN)<br />

Charm discovery (1974) (S. Ting, B. Richter)<br />

Bottom quark discovery (1977) (L. Lederman)<br />

gluon observation (1979) (DESY)<br />

W,Z observation (1983) (UA1, UA2, C. Rubbia, CERN)<br />

top quark (1995) (DØ, CDF, Fermilab)<br />

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