Beamtimes and lifetimes [[electronic resource] ] : the world of high energy physicists / / Sharon Traweek
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Traweek Sharon
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Beamtimes and lifetimes [[electronic resource] ] : the world of high energy physicists / / Sharon Traweek
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 187p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.45 |
| Soggetto topico: | Physicists |
| Particles (Nuclear physics) - Laboratories - Environmental aspects | |
| Note generali: | Originally published: 1988. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue - an anthropologist studies physicists; touring the site - powerful places in the laboratory; inventing machines that discover nature - detectors at SLAC and KEK; Pilgrim's Progress - male tales told during a life in physics; ground states - distinctions and the ties that bind; buying time and taking space - negotiations, collaboration, and change; epilogue - knowledge and passion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Looks at the life of particle physicists, showing who these people are and what their world is really like. Traweek shows their similarities and differences, how their careers are shaped, how they interact with their colleagues and how their ideas about time and space shape their social structure. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beamtimes and lifetimes |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04444-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778178303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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