A chapter in a book"50 years of QGP" An extended summary of the field can be found in large books and reviews, e. g. , my take in Ref. ~Shuryak: 2024zrh. It is hard to compress its 600+ pages and 50+ years of research to a few given below. Those include only recollection of few episodes, from early days to now, showing how vague dreams were eventually turning into solid and detailed scientific facts.
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