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Nanoscience is one of the newest and most exciting fields of research today, but until now, no one has been able to say with rigor what is new and exciting about nanoscience. Marcovich and Shinn expertly survey the instruments, materials, epistemologies, and career paths that define this new mode of doing science. Along the way, they offer an evocative vocabulary that clarifies how nanoscientists (and 21st century scientists more generally) form alliances, constructresearch trajectories, and inhabit a world in which disciplines and epistemologies are continually shifting. Anne Marcovich is a historian and sociologist of science and medicine based at the Paris Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Her research work entails studies of the relations between human body representations and representations of the social body; the history of ideas and theories concerning cancer, the human brain, and the processes and mechanisms of the mental development of children; the diffusion of Chinese medicine in the French medical context; and form andinternal structure as invariants in the organisation and evolution of society.Terry Shinn is a historian and sociologist of science based at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. His research covers themes such as relations between social structure and educational hierarchy in the sciences; linkage between the organisation of research work and the structure of scientific disciplines; correlations between research question, reasoning modes, and intra-laboratory hierarchy and research function; the place of "generic instrumentation" in the growth of 20th century scientificknowledge in the physical sciences; and transversality in the circulation of knowledge between scientific fields. Klappentext This book presents key historical moments in the birth and evolution of nanoscience in the last thirty years. It narrates the genesis of revolutionary instruments and new species of molecule size objects. Zusammenfassung This book presents key historical moments in the birth and evolution of nanoscience in the last thirty years. It narrates the genesis of revolutionary instruments and new species of molecule size objects....
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This book presents key historical moments in the birth and evolution of nanoscience in the last thirty years. It narrates the genesis of revolutionary instruments and new species of molecule size objects.
