LEADER 04368nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910826349303321 005 20240516070220.0 010 $a0-226-02422-9 010 $a1-283-13435-7 010 $a9786613134356 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226024226 035 $a(CKB)2670000000094748 035 $a(EBL)709999 035 $a(OCoLC)727649389 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525309 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12149721 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525309 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507068 035 $a(PQKB)10428610 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540798 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12252464 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540798 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10492453 035 $a(PQKB)11353456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC709999 035 $a(DE-B1597)523125 035 $a(OCoLC)730514992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226024226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL709999 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10476346 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL313435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000094748 100 $a20050211d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepresenting electrons $ea biographical approach to theoretical entities /$fTheodore Arabatzis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-02420-2 311 $a0-226-02421-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Methodological Preliminaries --$tChapter 2. Why Write Biographies of Theoretical Entities? --$tChapter 3. Rethinking "the Discovery of the Electron" --$tChapter 4. The Birth and Infancy of the Representation of the Electron --$tChapter 5. The Genesis of the Quantum Electron --$tChapter 6. Between Relativity and Correspondence --$tChapter 7. "How the Electrons Spend Their leisure Time": The Chemists' Perspective --$tChapter 8. Forced to Spin by Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit --$tChapter 9. Identifying the Electron: Meaning Variance and the Historicity of Scientific Realism --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aBoth a history and a metahistory, Representing Electrons focuses on the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890's to 1925 and the methodological problems associated with writing about unobservable scientific entities. Using the electron-or rather its representation-as a historical actor, Theodore Arabatzis illustrates the emergence and gradual consolidation of its representation in physics, its career throughout old quantum theory, and its appropriation and reinterpretation by chemists. As Arabatzis develops this novel biographical approach, he portrays scientific representations as partly autonomous agents with lives of their own. Furthermore, he argues that the considerable variance in the representation of the electron does not undermine its stable identity or existence. Raising philosophical issues of contentious debate in the history and philosophy of science-namely, scientific realism and meaning change-Arabatzis addresses the history of the electron across disciplines, integrating historical narrative with philosophical analysis in a book that will be a touchstone for historians and philosophers of science and scientists alike. 606 $aElectrons$xHistory 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aRealism 610 $aelectrons, science, invisible, unobservable, representation, physics, quantum theory, chemistry, scientific realism, philosophy, karl popper, discovery, meaning change, theoretical entities, hypothesis, zeeman effect, ion, lorentz, relativity, corpuscle, thomson, gn lewis, irving langmuir, goudsmit, uhlenbeck, putnam, hacking, feyerabend, kuhn, historicism, nonfiction. 615 0$aElectrons$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aRealism. 676 $a539.7/2112 686 $aNU 1500$2rvk 700 $aArabatzis$b Theodore$f1965-$01605010 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826349303321 996 $aRepresenting electrons$93930026 997 $aUNINA