Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics - Couverture souple

Pickering, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226667995 ISBN 13 : 9780226667997

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice.

"A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."—Michael Riordan, New Scientist

"An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."—Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Pickering is professor of sociology, criticism, and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and editor of Science as Practice and Culture, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226667995
• ISBN 13: 9780226667997
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 475
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• Personne responsable: non disponible