Discovery of the Color Degree of Freedom in Particle Physics: a Personal Perspective

Abstract

I review the main features of the color charge degree of freedom in particle physics, sketch the paradox in the early quark model that led to color, give a personal perspective on the discovery of color and describe the introduction of the gauge theory of color.

Comments: 12 pages, to appear in proceedings of the 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow State University, August 2007