‎"KERST, D. W. ET AL.‎
‎Attainment of Very High Energy by Means of Intersecting Beams of Particles. - [FIRST DESCRIPTION OF AN ATOM COLLIDER]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1956. 4to. Volume 102, April 15, No. 2, 1956 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered in the original blue wrappers with owner´s stamps to front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 590-1. [Entire issue: Pp. 299-592.].‎

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‎First printing of Kerst's important paper in which a proposal for a collider (Particle-Antiparticle Collider) is presented for the first time. ""The beginning of the subject can be traced back to a study by Kerst and collaborators (1956). (Pais. Inward Bound, p. 574.). Colliders are today absolutely fundamental in both applied and theoretical physics.""The real beginning of colliding beams comes in a paper by Donald Kerst et al., published as a letter to the editor in the Physical Review in early 1956 [the present paper]. Kerst was the leader of a Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA), which was the training ground for so many of the important accelerator physicists of the 1960s and 1970s. [...] Kerst and his colleagues had recognized in the relativistic case the enormous advantage of colliding beams over the fixed-target technique in attaining very high energy."" (Hoddeson. The Rise of the Standard Model, 1997, p. 263).‎