Constructing Quarks: Sociological History of Particle Physics

Andrew Pickering

Constructing Quarks: Sociological History of Particle Physics
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
1 June 1986
Pages
475
ISBN
9780226667997

Constructing Quarks: Sociological History of Particle Physics

Andrew Pickering

Recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, the text 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.

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