Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists /

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Looks at the life of particle physicists, showing who these people are and what their world is really like. Traweek shows their similarities and differences, how their careers are shaped, how they interact with their colleagues and how their ideas about time and space shape their social structure.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Traweek, Sharon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Physicists.
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Laboratories > Environmental aspects.
Physiciens.
physicists.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Physicists
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists
  • 1 Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory
  • 2 Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK
  • 3 Pilgrimâ€?s Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics
  • 4 Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind
  • 5 Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change
  • Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion
  • Notes
  • Index

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