Velvet Revolution at the synchrotron : biology, physics, and change in science / Park Doing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doing, Park, 1965-

Series:

Inside technology.

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical laboratories--Sociological aspects.

Physical laboratories.

Physical laboratories--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Laboratories--Sociological aspects.

Laboratories.

Laboratories--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Cyclotrons--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Cyclotrons.

Research institutes.

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Physical Description:

viii, 152 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotron laboratory.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Birth of a Hybrid Laboratory

2 Practice and Product: Analyzing Science

3 "Lab Hands" and the "Scarlet O": Operators, Scientists, and a Feel for the Equipment

4 From Ion Trapping to Intensive Tuning: The Particle Group, the X-Ray Lab, and a Re-Negotiation of "Normal" Running

5 The Absorption Correction: Biologists, Physicists,and a Re-Definition of Proper Experimentation

6 Epistemic Politics and Scientific Change: The Rise of the Crystallographers

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-69443-X

9786612694431

0-262-25874-9

OCLC:

460090942