How Experiments End

by Peter Galison

Book Overview

"Galison provides excellent histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will provide valuable material for both philosophers and historians of science and Galison's own thoughts on the nature of experiment are extremely important. . . . Galison has given both philosophers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226279154
• ISBN13: 9780226279152
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.5"