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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adair, Robert Kemp.
The great design.
Includes index.
1. Physics. 2. Particles (Nuclear physics)
3. Field theory (Physics) I. Title.
QC21.2.A28 1987 539 87-5729
ISBN 0-19-504380-4
ISBN 0-19-506069-5 (PBK.)

To the memory of my father
Robert Cleland Adair
from whom I learned about science
and to the memory of my mother
Margaret Wiegman Adair
who taught me to care for the humanities

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