Book ID: CBB000102088

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

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


MIT Press


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

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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Authors & Contributors
Navarro, Jaume
Nyrup, Rune
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Wolfenstein, Gabriel Karl
Topper, David R.
Thoreau, François
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Microscopes
Philosophy of science
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Madrid (Spain)
Institutions
Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Madrid)
Cornell University
Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge University
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