No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge /
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The violation of parity conservation
- The Meselson-Stahl experiment : "the most beautiful experiment in biology"
- Emil Konopinski and the theory of β-decay
- The rise and fall of the fifth force
- The discovery of the electron
- The road to the neutrino
- How many neutrinos?
- The appearance and disappearance of the 17-keV Neutrino
- The missing solar neutrinos
- Blas Cabrera and the search for magnetic monopoles
- Robert Millikan and the charge of the electron
- The early searches for gravity waves
- Atomic parity violation : do mutants die of natural causes?
- Conclusion. No easy answers.
