No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
Franklin, Allan, 1938-
2005
Q162 .F694 2005 (Mapit)
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Title No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
Author Franklin, Allan, 1938-
ISBN 082294250X (alk. paper)
Imprint Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number Q162 .F694 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 507/.2
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.
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Introduction
Experiment
Making or Breaking Theories
The Violation of Parity Conservation
The Meselson-Stahl Experiment: "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology"
Emil Konopinski and the Theory of ?-Decay
The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force
The Search for What Is There
The Discovery of the Electron
The Road to the Neutrino
How Many Neutrinos?
The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-keV Neutrino
The Missing Solar Neutrinos
Blas Cabrera and the Search for Magnetic Monopoles
The Trouble with Scientists
Robert Millikan and the Charge of the Electron
The Early Searches for Gravity Waves
Atomic Parity Violation: Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes?
Conclusion: No Easy Answers.

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