Constructing Quarks: A sociological history of particle physics

University of Chicago Press (1984)
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Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature.

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0226667995   9780226667997   7535770002   0852245351   0226667987   0852244584

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10.1086/289282
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