Oral history interview with Luis W. Alvarez conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 May 30.

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Oral history interview with Luis W. Alvarez conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1978 May 30.

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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). Part of two separate sets of interviews. One set (Fairbank, Alvarez, Hagstrom) focussed especially on the history and credibility of W. Fairbank's reported observations of fractional charges on matter (quarks) ("The Hunting of the Quark," in Isis, Vol. 72 (1981). Another set (Alvarez, Price) focussed on the history and credibility of reported observations of a magnetic monopole (relating to elementary particle theory) by Price, Shirk, Osborne, and Pinsky in 1975.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

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Luis W. Alvarez (b. June 13, 1911, San Francisco, CA–d. September 1, 1988, Berkely, CA) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1936, Alvarez went to work for Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley. Alvarez devised a set of experiments to observe K-electron capture in radioactive nuclei, predicted by the beta decay ...

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 ...