Article ID: CBB000850461

The Discovery of the Muon and the Failed Revolution against Quantum Electrodynamics (2008)

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Galison, Peter Louis (Author)


Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 50
Pages: 105--159


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Reprint. [Originally published in Centaurus 26 (1982): 262--316.]
Language: English

Description Retrospective commentaries on this article: JournalArticle; Peter Galison; Commentary 01 (2008) [850462], JournalArticle; Allan Franklin; Commentary 02 (2008) [850463], and JournalArticle; David Kaiser; Commentary 03: Birth Cry... (2008) [850464].


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Article Galison, Peter (2008) Commentary 01. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 160). unapi

Article Franklin, Allan (2008) Commentary 02. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 162). unapi

Article Kaiser, David (2008) Commentary 03: Birth Cry of Image and Logic. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 166). unapi

Article Andersen, Hanne (2008) Centaurus at Volume 50: Looking into the Archives. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 1). unapi

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Balashov, Yuri
Gorelik, Gennadii E.
Kojevnikov, Alexei
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