Selected Publications of Michael Riordan
Books
The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics
Michael Riordan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987).
Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age
Michael
Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997).
The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s
Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan and Max Dresden, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
“The Discovery of Quarks”
Michael Riordan, Science Vol. 256, No. 23 (29 May 1992), pp. 1287–93.
“The Origins of the pn Junction”
Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, IEEE Spectrum Vol. 34, No. 6 (June 1997), pp. 46–51.
“The Moses of Silicon Valley”
Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Physics Today Vol. 50, No. 12 (December 1997), pp. 42–47.
“The Invention of the Transistor”
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson and Conyers Herring, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Special Centenary Issue, March 1999), pp. S336-45.
“The Demise of the Superconducting Super Collider”
Michael Riordan, Physics in Perspective, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December 2000), pp. 411–25.
“Pauli’s Ghost: The Conception and Discovery of Neutrinos”
Michael Riordan, in D. Caldwell, ed., Current Aspects of Neutrino Physics (Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2001), pp. 1–16.
“A Tale of Two Cultures: Building the Superconducting Super Collider, 1988-1993”
Michael Riordan, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences,
Vol. 32, No. 1 (Fall 2001), pp. 125–144
“Extraction of R = sL/sT from Deep Inelastic e–p and e–d Cross Sections”
E. M. Riordan et al., Physical Review Letters 33 (1974), 561.
“Tests of Scaling of the Proton Electromagnetic Structure Functions”
E. M. Riordan et al., Physics Letters 52B (1974), 249.
“Experimental Studies of the Neutron and Proton Electromagnetic Structure Functions”
A. Bodek, E. M. Riordan et al., Physical Review D20 (1979), 1471.
“Search for Short-Lived Axions in an Electron Beam Dump Experiment”
E. M. Riordan et al., Physical Review Letters 59 (1987), 755.