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Author Traweek, Sharon.

Title Beamtimes and lifetimes : the world of high energy physicists / Sharon Traweek.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Edition 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages)
Language laboratories language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-184) and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists""; ""1 Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory""; ""2 Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK""; ""3 Pilgrim�s Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics""; ""4 Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind""; ""5 Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change""; ""Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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Subject Physicists.
Physicists.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Laboratories -- Environmental aspects.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Traweek, Sharon. Beamtimes and lifetimes. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992 0674063473 9780674063471 (OCoLC)27319626
ISBN 9780674044449 (electronic book)
0674044444 (electronic book)
9780674063471 (print)
0674063473 (print)