No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
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Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
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N507.2/96
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English
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xii, 258 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The violation of parity conservation -- 3. The Meselson-Stahl experiment : "the most beautiful experiment in biology" -- 4. Emil Konopinski and the theory of [beta]-decay -- 5. The rise and fall of the fifth force -- 6. The discovery of the electron -- 7. The road to the neutri...
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Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2005.
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"In No Easy Answers, Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science and scientific experiment for general readers and for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who may not have any background in physics. He contends that science is too important for the public not to have an understanding of it." "Through close examination of some of...
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No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N507.2/96
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74VKPkGeO5Qd
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082294250X (acid-free paper)
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507.2
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991019713359702626
