Histories of the electron the birth of microphysics
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2001.
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| Series | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9780262269483 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (xi, 514) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick
- I, Corpuscles and electrons. J.J. Thomson and the electron, 1897-1899 / George E. Smith
- Corpuscles to electrons / Isobel Falconer
- The questionable matter of electricity: the reception of J.J. Thomson's "corpuscle" among electrical theorists and technologists / Graeme Gooday
- Paul Villad, J.J. Thomson, and the composition of cathode rays / Benoit Lelong
- II, What was the newborn electron good for? The Zeeman effect and the discovery of the electron / Theodore Arabatzis
- The electron, the protyle, and the unity of matter / Helge Kragh
- O.W. Richardson and the electron theory of matter, 1901-1916 / Ole Knudsen
- Electron gas theory of metals: free electrons in bulk matter / Walter Kaiser
- III, Electrons applied and appropriated. The electron and the nucleus / Laurie M. Brown
- The electron, the hole, and the transistor / Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan
- Remodeling a classic: the electron in organic chemistry, 1900-1940 / Mary Jo Nye
- The physicists' electron and its appropriation by the chemists / Kostas Gavroglu
- Philosophical electrons. Who really discovered the electron? / Peter Achinstein
- History and metaphysics: on the reality of spin / Margaret Morrison
- What should philosophers of science learn from the history of the electron? / Jonathan Bain and John D. Norton
- 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? / Nicolas Rasmussen and Alan Chalmers.