No Easy Answers: Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge

by Allan Franklin

Book Overview

Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science to both a general reader and to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who may not have any background in physics. Through the examination of nontechnical case studies, he illustrates the various roles that experiment plays in science. He uses examples of unquestioned success, such as the discoveries of the electron and of three types of neutrino, as well as studies that were dead ends,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082294250X
• ISBN13: 9780822942504
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"