Book ID: CBB000060104

Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists (1988)

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Traweek, Sharon (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xv + 187 pp.; notes; index

Reviewed By

Review Latour, B. (1990) Review of "Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 145-71). unapi

Review Pickering, A. (1990) Review of "Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 381-82). unapi

Review Pestre, D. (1992) Review of "Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists". Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (pp. 155-56). unapi

Review Suchman, L. (1991) Review of "Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists". American Anthropologist (pp. 717-18). unapi

Review Restivo, S. (1991) Review of "Beamtimes and lifetimes: The world of high energy physicists". Philosophy of Science (pp. 507-8). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Weart, Spencer R.
Traweek, Sharon
Wittner, Lawrence S.
Wilson, Richard Guy
Staley, Kent W.
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Publishers
Harvard University Press
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Washington State University Press
University Press of America
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Philosophy of science
Biographies
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Physics
People
Teller, Edward
Szilard, Leo
Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron
Kahn, Herman
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
England
Italy
Germany
France
Institutions
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
RAND Corporation
Ko Enerugii Butsurigaku Kenkyusho
Harvard University
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