Understanding the Standard Model: A Century of Modern Physics in the Subnuclear World

The Standard Model of particle physics represents a culmination of 100 years of research, providing a relatively simple framework for understanding the subnuclear world at scales of 1 femtometer (1e-15 m). This revolutionary theory describes the fundamental particles—quarks and leptons—and their interactions through gauge bosons. Notably, the quark model was developed by Murray Gell-Mann, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of these elementary constituents of matter.

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• particle physics
• quarks
• leptons
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• subnuclear world
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