Otkrytie asimptoticheskoi svobody i poyavlenie KKhD

Abstract

The early 1960’s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. The construction and utilization of major accelerators were proceeding at full steam. Experimental discoveries and surprises appeared every few months. There was hardly any theory to speak of. The emphasis was on phenomenology, and there were only small islands of theoretical advances here and there. Field theory was in disgrace; S-Matrix theory was in full bloom. Symmetries were all the rage. Of the four forces observed in nature, only gravity and electromagnetism were well understood. The other two forces, the weak force responsible for radioactivity and the strong nuclear force that operated within the