1. Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Abstract:
This retrospective paper traces the conceptual evolution of two theories in which the author was involved—the two-meson theory
(with H A Bethe) in 1947 and the universal (V-A) theory of weak interactions (with E C G Sudarshan) in 1957—into the present-day standard model of particle interactions.
Part 1 is entitled ‘From the pion to QCD and pseudo-Goldstone bosons” and Part 2 “From the muon and neutrino to QFD and chiral
anomalies’.
Adapted from two lectures delivered at the University of Rochester in October, 1987.