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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kent W Staley |
ISBN: | 9780521827102 0521827108 9780521174251 0521174252 |
OCLC Number: | 890128063 |
Description: | 343 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction; 1. Origins of the third generation of matter; 2. Building a detector and a collaboration to run it; 3. Doing physics: CDF closes in on the top; 4. Writing up the evidence: The evolution of a result; 5. Run Ib: 'Observation' of the top quark, and second thoughts and 'evidence'; 6. A model of the experiment: Error statistical evidence and the top quark; 7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence; Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Kent W. Staley. |
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Review of the hardback: '... a significant contribution to the history and philosophy of both experiment and science.' Allen Franklin, University of Colorado at Boulder, author of The Neglect of Experiment Review of the hardback: 'It should become a model of how philosophers do a case study in the history of science ... The philosophy, history and sociology are fully integrated. All in all, it's a wonderful book.' Craig Callender, University of California, San Diego Read more...
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