Both a history and a metahistory, "Representing Electrons" focuses
on the development of various theoretical representations of
electrons from the late 1890s to 1925 and the methodological
problems associated with writing about unobservable scientific
entities.
Using the electron--or rather its representation--as a historical
actor, Theodore Arabatzis illustrates the emergence and gradual
consolidation of its representation in physics, its career
throughout old quantum theory, and its appropriation and
reinterpretation by chemists. As Arabatzis develops this novel
biographical approach, he portrays scientific representations as
partly autonomous agents with lives of their own. Furthermore, he
argues that the considerable variance in the representation of the
electron does not undermine its stable identity or existence.
Raising philosophical issues of contentious debate in the history
and philosophy of science--namely, scientific realism and meaning
change--Arabatzis addresses the history of the electron across
disciplines, integrating historical narrative with philosophical
analysis in a book that will be a touchstone for historians and
philosophers of science and scientists alike.
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