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Book ID: CBB000102088

Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics (2001)

Buchwald, Jed Z. (Editor)
Warwick, Andrew (Editor)

MIT Press

Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xi + 514 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics Electricity; magnetism X-ray tubes Matter theory Philosophy of science Explanation; hypotheses; theories Scientific apparatus and instruments Microscopes Thomson, Joseph John

Description Contents: Jed Z. Buchwald; Andrew Warwick: Introduction; I. Corpuscles and Electrons; George E. Smith: J. J. Thomson and the Electron, 1897-1899; Isobel Falconer: Corpuscles to Electrons; Graeme Gooday: The Questionable Matter of Electricity: The Reception of J. J. Thomson's “Corpuscle” among Electrical Theorists and Technologists; Benoit Lelong: Paul Villad, J. J. Thomson, and the Composition of Cathode Rays; II. What Was the Newborn Electron Good for? Theodore Arabatzis: The Zeeman Effect and the Discovery of the Electron; Helge Kragh: The Electron, the Protyle, and the Unity of Matter; Ole Knudsen: O. W. Richardson and the Electron Theory of Matter, 1901-1916; Walter Kaiser: Electron Gas Theory of Metals: Free Electrons in Bulk Matter; III. Electrons Applied and Appropriated; Laurie M. Brown: The Electron and the Nucleus; Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan: The Electron, the Hole, and the Transistor; Mary Jo Nye: Remodeling a Classic: The Electron in Organic Chemistry, 1900-1940; Kostas Gavroglu: The Physicists' Electron and Its Appropriation by the Chemists; Peter Achinstein: Philosophical Electrons Who Really Discovered the Electron? Margaret Morrison, History and Metaphysics: On the Reality of Spin; Jonathan Bain; John D. Norton: What Should Philosophers of Science Learn from the History of the Electron? Nicolas Rasmussen; Alan Chalmers: The Role of Theory in the Use of Instruments; or, How Much Do We Need to Know about Electrons to Do Science with an Electron Microscope?

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Review Brush, Stephen G. (2002) Review of "Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics". Physics in Perspective (p. 492). unapi

Review Hunt, Bruce J. (2005) Review of "Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 117). unapi

Review Hughes, Jeff (2003) Review of "Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 323). unapi

Essay Review Josefowicz, Diane Greco (2003) Histories of Discovery. Perspectives on Science (pp. 346-364). unapi

Review Soler, Léna (2004) Review of "Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (p. 525). unapi

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