Heavy quarks, from discovery to precision

Abstract

The discoveries of the heavy quarks are briefly reviewed, with a focus on the role played by Mario Greco in the interpretation of the experimental observations, and on his contributions to heavy quark precision phenomenology.

Comments: 7 pages, talk given at "Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste", La Thuile, Italy, March 2011, in honour of Mario Greco's 70th birthday. To appear in the Proceedings