Oral history interview with Abdus Salam conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1977 November 30.

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Oral history interview with Abdus Salam conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1977 November 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). This interview is one of a set (G. Feldman, J.C. Pati, A. Salam, and B. Stech) conducted with respect to a sociological study of color theory models of new elementary particles (the J-psi etc, 1974-1976) including quarks; see A. Pickering, "The Role of Interests in High-energy Physics: The Choice Between Charm and Colour," in K. D. Knorr, R. Krohn, and R.D. Whitley, eds., THE SOCIAL PROCESS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. SOCIOLOGY OF THE SCIENCES, VOL. 4, 1980 (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981), 107-138. Pickering attempted to situate work on color theory within the overall context of an individual's career, including continuities and breaks.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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 ...

Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996

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Salam (1926-1996). Founded the Dept. of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London, professor from 1957-1993. Founded International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP at Trieste in 1964; directed Centre until 1994 when he became president. From the description of Oral history interview with Abdus Salam conducted by Andrew Pickering for his book, Constructing quarks, 1977 November 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83716203 Salam (1926-1996). From the descri...