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Author Traweek, Sharon.

Title Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists / Sharon Traweek
Edition 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-184) and index
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Subject Physicists.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Laboratories -- Environmental aspects
physicists.
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Physicists
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674044449
0674044444