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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.

Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics

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

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/12/1999
    ISBN13: 9780226667997, 978-0226667997
    ISBN10: 0226667995

    Number of Pages: 475

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    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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