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Once upon a time, the life of the high-energy physicist was dominated by frequent astonishing and spectacular discoveries: new effects or new particles that were unexpected by the lumpen proletariat appeared with great regularity. Recall the spirit of the times a century ago: with the discoveries of the inert gases in 1894, X-rays in 1895, radioactivity in 1896, and the electron in 1897. Here are a dozen more contemporary examples:
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Glashow, S.L. (1990). The End of Superworld III. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) The Superworld III. The Subnuclear Series, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8869-2_15
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