DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPOSITE MODEL FOR ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

早在基本粒子复合模型的倡导（1956）之前，坂田昭一就对科学方法论感兴趣，并强调方法论考虑的重要性。他于1933年在京都大学发表毕业论文。因此，为了弄清酒田的复合模型的背景，他的遗作从毕业时已经收集，并试图把在时间顺序。这本书虽然有些不尽人意，但已被出版为“坂田纪念档案图书馆资料目录第1卷”。在工作的同时，社会和文化背景的酒田已被审查，酒田的方法论和他的具体作品之间的相关性的物理学研究。此外，还考察了友永提出的量子电动力学“重整化”理论的发展，以期从另一个侧面揭示复合模型的倡导过程。

Shoichi Sakata had been interested in the scientific methodology and emphasized the importance of methodological consideration, since his graduation thesis of Kyoto university(1933) long before the advocacy(1956) of the composite model for elementary particles. So to make clear the background of Sakata's composite model, his posthumous works from the time of graduation has been collected and tried to put in chronological order. The collection, yet somewhat unsatisfactory has been published as "SAKATA MEMORIAL ARCHIVAL LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF MATERIALS VOL. 1". In parallel with the work, the social and cultural background of Sakata has been examined, and the correlation between Sakata's methodological approach and his concrete works on physics has been studied. In addition the development of the "renormalization" theory proposed by S.Tomonaga in quantum electrodynamics has been investigated which is expected to shed light on the process of advocacy of the composite model from another side.