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035			_a(CaBNVSL)mat06267374
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040			_aCaBNVSL _beng _erda _cCaBNVSL _dCaBNVSL
050		4	_aQC793.5.E62 _bH57 2001eb
245	0	0	_aHistories of the electron : _bthe birth of microphysics / _cedited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2001.
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2004]
300			_a1 PDF (xi, 514) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aDibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aIn the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the results of which some historians later viewed as the "discovery" of the electron. This book is both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that it opened up.The book is organized in four parts. The first part, Corpuscles and Electrons, considers the varying accounts of Thomson's role in the experimental production of the electron. The second part, What Was the Newborn Electron Good For?, examines how scientists used the new entity in physical and chemical investigations. The third part, Electrons Applied and Appropriated, explores the accommodation, or lack thereof, of the electron in nuclear physics, chemistry, and electrical science. It follows the electron's gradual progress from cathode ray to ubiquitous subatomic particle and eponymous entity in one of the world's most successful industries -- electronics. The fourth part, Philosophical Electrons, considers the role of the electron in issues of instrumentalism, epistemology, and realism. The electron, it turns out, can tell us a great deal about how science works.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
600	1	0	_aThomson, J. J. _q(Joseph John), _d1856-1940. _922423
600	1	4	_aThomson, J. J., _cSir _q(Joseph John), _d1856-1940. _922424
650		0	_aElectrons _xHistory. _922425
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
700	1		_aBuchwald, Jed Z. _922426
700	1		_aWarwick, Andrew. _922427
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _922428
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _922429
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262524247
830		0	_aDibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. _922430
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267374
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