Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics
A biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical
world that it opened up.
In 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.
Jed Z. Buchwald is Director of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Andrew Warwick is Lecturer in the History of Science at Imperial College, London.
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