Oral history interview with A. O. Barut conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 May 19.

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Oral history interview with A. O. Barut conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 May 19.

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One of 36 interviews with particle physicists conducted as background material for Pickering's book, CONSTRUCTING QUARKS: A SOCIOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS (1984). Barut explores his career with special emphasis on understanding the evolution of his nonstandard views on elementary particle theory and his opposition to the "new orthodoxy."

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Barut, A. O. (Asim Orhan), 1926-

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Pickering, Andrew, 1948-....

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Sociologist. Researcher in physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and the Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom, 1973-1975; and in sociology of science at the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh from 1976. From the description of Interviews conducted for book, Constructing quarks, 1978-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81866290 ...