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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674044449
  • 0674044444
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beamtimes and lifetimes.DDC classification:
  • 306.45 22
LOC classification:
  • QC774.A2 T73 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists -- 1 Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory -- 2 Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK -- 3 Pilgrim�s Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics -- 4 Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind -- 5 Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change -- Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion -- Notes -- Index
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-184) and index.

Print version record.

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists -- 1 Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory -- 2 Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK -- 3 Pilgrim�s Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics -- 4 Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind -- 5 Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change -- Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion -- Notes -- Index

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.

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