Unfinished Nature - Particle Physics At Cern

Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN's research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Finding the Higgs Boson
2. Nature and Signature
3. On Orientation
4. The Cycle of Work
5. Art, Science, and Postmodernism
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Arpita Roy is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN’s research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making.

Product details

• Authors: Arpita Roy
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2024
• EAN: 9780231205535
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20553-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle, social science; science