Weak Interactions: From Current-Current to Standard Model and Beyond

Abstract

This paper provides a brief overview for non-specialists of some of the highlights in the development of the theory of weak interactions during the past century.

Comments: 26 pages; Versions of this article will appear as a chapter in the book "Hundred years of sub-atomic physics" edited by Ernest Henley, to be published by World Scientific Publishing and as an article in International Journal of Theoretical Physics, WSPC (2012)