THE DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM AND THE EMERGENCE OF QCD
This is a revised version of the talk delivered at the Euroconference on Quantum Chromodynamics, Montpellier, July 1998; the original version was published in Nucl. Phys. (Proc. Suppl.) 74, 426 (1999).
The following sections are included:
Introduction
The Theoretical Scene
Quantum field theory
The bootstrap
Symmetries
Experiment
My Road to Asymptotic Freedom
From N/D to QCD
How to explain scaling?
The plan
The Discovery of asymptotic freedom
Non-Abelian Gauge Theories of the Strong Interactions
The Emergence and Acceptance of QCD
Other Implications of Asymptotic Freedom
Consistency of quantum field theory
Unification
References