文档介绍：Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
Inside Technology
edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, and Trevor Pinch
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Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Park Doing
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
for Mary Houser Doing, Pennsylvania State University, Class of 1928
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Doing, Park, 1965–
Velvet Revolution at the synchrotron : biology, physics, and change in science
/ Park Doing
p. cm. —(Inside technology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-04255-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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6. Research institutes. 7. Science—Methodology. I. Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Birth of a Hybrid Laboratory 1
2 Practice and Product: Analyzing Science 23
3 “Lab Hands” and the “Scarlet O”: Operators, Scientists, and
a Feel for the Equipment 45
4 From Ion Trapping to Intensive Tuning: The Particle Group,
the X-Ray Lab, and a Re- Negotiation of “Normal” Running 75
5 The Absorption Correction: Biologists, Physicists, and a
Re- Defi nition of Proper Experimentation 109
6 Epistemic Politics and Scientifi c Change