Peering inside the proton

摘要

What I am going to describe is the birth of the quark model as a viable, experimentally confirmed description of the structure of hadrons. The quark model, which embodied a radically new conceptual view of the structure of matter, was fiercely debated and generally rejected. The idea of quark constituents did not come easily to the physics community. Its ultimate acceptance took well over a decade and occurred only after inescapable and compelling experimental verification.