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050	0	0	_aQC789.2.S9 _bR69 2024
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100	1		_aRoy, Arpita _c(Anthropologist), _eauthor. _930777
245	1	0	_aUnfinished nature : _bparticle physics at CERN / _cArpita Roy.
263			_a2402
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2024]
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In Unfinished Nature, Arpita Roy offers an ethnographic account of a sophisticated particle physics laboratory to distinguish the modes of reasoning that animate discoveries and innovations, which is decisive for the way in which an experimental science understands itself in its relation to the contemporary world. She draws on two and half years of ethnographic fieldwork from the site of the world's highest energy experiments on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, or the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire, near Geneva in Switzerland. Roy was on site during the climactic discovery of the Higgs boson, which won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics, to tell the parallel stories of what scientists have to say about their commitments and concerns, the sources and vision guiding their experiments, and the questions they ask of themselves and of us. In doing so, she raises questions about how we think about the discovery of scientific knowledge and reflects self-consciously about how we should think about the social context of scientific discoveries. Unfinished Nature examines how discoveries and innovations in experimental sciences constitute a break from a social context. Central to her understanding is that discovering new facts in experimental physics-from quarks to positrons-turns on conceptual issues rather than on questions of empirical support and constitute, which she calls a living ontology. In doing so, Roy shows how scientists at the highest level of abstraction think about and understand the work that they do and how it is possible at all."-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aEuropean Organization for Nuclear Research. _930778
610	2	0	_aEuropean Organization for Nuclear Research _xEmployees _xSocial conditions. _930779
650		0	_aNuclear energy _xResearch _xLaboratories _xSociological aspects. _930780
650		0	_aNuclear physics _xResearch _xSocial aspects _zSwitzerland. _930781
650		0	_aDiscoveries in science _xSocial aspects _zSwitzerland. _930782
650		0	_aHiggs bosons. _930783
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