Book ID: CBB000741434

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (2006)

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Arabatzis, Theodore (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiv + 295 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “On the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s to 1925 and the methodological problems associated with writing about unobservable scientific entities.” (from the publisher)


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Review Nickles, Thomas (2006) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 763). unapi

Review Bromberg, Joan Lisa (2006) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 173). unapi

Review Stemwedel, Janet D. (2006) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". Chemical Heritage (pp. 44-45). unapi

Review Massimi, Michela (2007) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 87). unapi

Review Nye, Mary Jo (2007) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 315). unapi

Review Gooday, Graeme (2008) Review of "Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 149). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kragh, Helge S.
Gori, Pietro
Ibáñez, Joana
Rowland Wynne
Manuel DeLanda
Zalabardo, José L.
Journals
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
HOPOS
European Physical Journal H
Science and Education
Philosophy of Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Wales Press
Oxford University Press
Greenwood Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physical chemistry
Particles (nuclear physics)
Physics
Realism
People
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
Mach, Ernst
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Williams, Evan James
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wald, Franz
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
Wales
Prague (Czechia)
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