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Histories of the electron : the birth of microphysics /

In the mid to late 1890s, J.J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the results of which some historians later viewed as the &quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buchwald, Jed Z., Warwick, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Colección:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.