The Production of New Scientific Terms
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1980
- Publisher
- American Speech
- Volume / pages
- (Summer 1980), 55, No. 2, 102.
- Retrieved
- May 29, 2012
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Origin of the "Charmed" Quark
We called the new [fourth] quark the “charmed quark” because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. “Charm” also means a “a magical device to avert evil,” and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the…