1. For a general account, see Gian Francesco Giudice, A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
2. For essays on the birth of Big Science, see Derek J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science … And Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986); Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly, ed., Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992).
3. Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (New York: Basic Books and London: Faber and Faber, 2009), p. 353.
4. For the relationship between the Manhattan Project and Big Science, see Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), especially pp. 279-317; Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press and Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002), especially pp. 45-54.
5. Silvan Schweber, “A Historical Perspective on the Rise of the Standard Model,” in Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden, ed., The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 645-684, on p. 657.