Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists / Sharon Traweek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Traweek, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicists.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Laboratories--Environmental aspects.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 187p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Originally published: 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-674-04444-4

OCLC:

923110316