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Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics
- Author: Buchwald, Jed Z.
- Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2004
- ISBN-13: 9780262524247
- ISBN-10: 0262524244
In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge'sCavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiationproduced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the resultsof which some historians later viewed as the "discovery" of the electron. This bookis both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that itopened up.The book is organized in four parts. The first part, Corpuscles andElectrons, considers the varying accounts of Thomson's role in the experimentalproduction of the electron. The second part, What Was the Newborn Electron GoodFor?, examines how scientists used the new entity in physical and chemicalinvestigations. The third part, Electrons Applied and Appropriated, explores theaccommodation, or lack thereof, of the electron in nuclear physics, chemistry, andelectrical science. It follows the electron's gradual progress from cathode ray toubiquitous subatomic particle and eponymous entity in one of the world's mostsuccessful industries -- electronics. The fourth part, Philosophical Electrons, considers the role of the electron in issues of instrumentalism, epistemology, andrealism. The electron, it turns out, can tell us a great deal about how scienceworks.
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In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge'sCavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiationproduced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the resultsof which some historians later viewed as the "discovery" of the electron. This bookis both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that itopened up.The book is organized in four parts. The first part, Corpuscles andElectrons, considers the varying accounts of Thomson's role in the experimentalproduction of the electron. The second part, What Was the Newborn Electron GoodFor?, examines how scientists used the new entity in physical and chemicalinvestigations. The third part, Electrons Applied and Appropriated, explores theaccommodation, or lack thereof, of the electron in nuclear physics, chemistry, andelectrical science. It follows the electron's gradual progress from cathode ray toubiquitous subatomic particle and eponymous entity in one of the world's mostsuccessful industries -- electronics. The fourth part, Philosophical Electrons, considers the role of the electron in issues of instrumentalism, epistemology, andrealism. The electron, it turns out, can tell us a great deal about how scienceworks.
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