MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02718cam a22002894a 4500
001 00046580
003 DLC
005 20091111081303.0
008 000908s2001 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00046580
020 $a0262024942 (hc. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQC793.5.E62$bH57 2001
082 00 $a539.7/2112/09$221
245 00 $aHistories of the electron :$bthe birth of microphysics /$cedited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$cc2001.
300 $axi, 514 :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aDibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION -- Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick -- I CORPUSCLES AND ELECTRONS -- 1 J. J. THOMSON AND THE ELECTRON, 1897-1899 -- George E. Smith -- 2 CORPUSCLES TO ELECTRONS -- Isobel Falconer -- 3 THE QUESTIONABLE MATTER OF ELECTRICITY: THE RECEPTION OF J. J. THOMSON'S "CORPUSCLE" AMONG ELECTRICAL THEORISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS -- Graeme Gooday -- 4 PAUL VILLARD, J. J. THOMSON, AND THE COMPOSITION OF CATHODE RAYS -- Benoit Lelong -- II WHAT WAS THE NEWBORN ELECTRON GOOD FOR? -- 5 THE ZEEMAN EFFECT AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON -- Theodore Arabatzis -- 6 THE ELECTRON, THE PROTYLE, AND THE UNITY OF MATTER -- Helge Kragh -- 7 0. W. RICHARDSON AND THE ELECTRON THEORY OF MATTER, 1901-1916 -- Ole Knudsen -- 8 ELECTRON GAS THEORY OF METALS: FREE ELECTRONS IN BULK MATTER -- Walter Kaiser -- III ELECTRONS APPLIED AND APPROPRIATED -- 9 THE ELECTRON AND THE NUCLEUS -- Laurie M. Brown -- 10 THE ELECTRON, THE HOLE, AND THE TRANSISTOR -- Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan -- 11 REMODELING A CLASSIC: THE ELECTRON IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 1900-1940 -- MaryJo Nye -- 12 THE PHYSICISTS' ELECTRON AND ITS APPROPRIATION BY THE CHEMISTS -- Kostas Gavroglu -- IV PHILOSOPHICAL ELECTRONS -- 13 WHO REALLY DISCOVERED THE ELECTRON? -- Peter Achinstein -- 14 HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS: ON THE REALITY OF SPIN -- Margaret Morrison -- 15 WHAT SHOULD PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ELECTRON? -- Jonathan Bain and John D. Norton -- 16 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.
650 0 $aElectrons$xHistory.
600 10 $aThomson, J. J.$q(Joseph John),$d1856-1940.
700 1 $aBuchwald, Jed Z.
700 1 $aWarwick, Andrew.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/00046580.html
856 42 $3Book review (E-STREAMS)$uhttp://www.e-streams.com/es0509/es0509_2104.htm