Representing electrons : a biographical approach to theoretical entities /

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Using the electron--or rather its representation--as a historical actor, Theodore Arabatzis illustrates the emergence and gradual consolidation of its representation in physics, its career throughout old quantum theory, and its appropriation and reinterpretation by chemists. As Arabatzis develops th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arabatzis, Theodore, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Temas:
Electrons > History.
Science > Philosophy.
Realism.
Électrons > Histoire.
Réalisme.
SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear.
Electrons
Realism
Science > Philosophy
Philosophie
Realismus > Philosophie
Wissenschaftstheorie
Elektron
Entität
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Methodological preliminaries
  • Why write biographies of theoretical entities?
  • Rethinking "the discovery of the electron"
  • The birth and infancy of the representation of the electron
  • The genesis of the quantum electron
  • Between relativity and correspondence
  • "How the electrons spend their leisure time" : the chemists' perspective
  • Forced to spin by Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit
  • Identifying the electron : meaning variance and the historicity of scientific realism.

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