Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics

by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick

Book Overview

In the mid- to late-1890s, J.J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on cathode rays (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) - the results of which some historians later viewed as the discovery of the electron. This book is both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that it opened up.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024942
• ISBN13: 9780262024945
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"