[Taxacom] International Commission on Subatomic ParticleNomenclature?

[Peter Stevens]

This kind ofusgae persited certainly up to 10 years ago, and I presume still persists.  I picked up similar quotes in "Science", "Nature" and the "International Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science", or whatever is is called; natural history also sometimes has very negative connotations.

P.


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'By the 1980s physicists were drowning in a sea of subatomic
particles. Every time they smashed an atom apart with powerful
particle accelerators, they found scores of new particles spitting
out.  It was so frustrating that J. Robert Oppenheimer declared that
the Nobel Prize in Physics should go to the physicist who did \not/
discover a new particle that year. (Enrico Fermi, horrified at the
proliferation of subatomic particles with Greek sounding names, said,
"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have
become a botanist.")'
Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible", Doubleday, 2008., p.
234-235, Chapter 13 ("Parallel Universes", section on String Theory

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