50 years of quarks / edited by Harald Fritzsch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, USA.

Includes bibliographical references.

A schematic model of baryons and mesons / M. Gell-Mann -- Quarks / M. Gell-Mann -- Concrete quarks / G. Zweig -- On the way from sakatons to quarks / L.B. Okun -- My life with quarks / S.L. Glashow -- Quarks and the bootstrap era / D. Horn -- From symmetries to quarks and beyond / S. Meshkov -- How I got to work with Feynman on the covariant quark model / F. Ravndal -- What is a quark? / G.L. Kane & M.J. Perry -- Insights and puzzles in particle physics / H. Leutwyler -- Quarks and QCD / H. Fritzsch -- The discovery of gluon / J. Ellis -- Discovery of the gluon / S.L. Wu -- The Parton model and its applications / T.M. Yan & S.D. Drell -- From old symmetries to new symmetries: quark, leptons and B -- L / R.N. Mohapatra -- Quark mass hierarchy and flavor mixing puzzles / Z.-Z. Xing -- Analytical determination of the QCD quark masses / C. Dominquez -- CP violation in six quark scheme -- legacy of Sakata model / M. Kobayashi -- The constituent quark model -- nowadays / W. Plessas -- From [omega坠to [omega][subscript b], doubly heavy baryons and exotics / M. Karliner -- Quark elastic scattering as a source of high transverse momentum mesons / R. Field -- Exclusive processes and the fundamental structure of hadrons / S.J. Brodsky -- Quark-gluon soup -- the perfectly liquid phase of QCD / U. Heinz -- Quarks and anomalies / R.J. Crewther -- Lessons from supersymmetry:'instead-of-confinement' mechanism / M. Shifman & A. Yung -- Quarks and a unified theory of nature fundamental forces / I. Antoniadis -- SU(8) family unification with boson-Fermion balance / S.L. Adler.