Histories of the electron: the birth of microphysics

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Content: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION. Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick. I CORPUSCLES AND ELECTRONS. 1 J.J. THOMSON AND THE ELECTRON, 1897-1899. George E. Smith. 2 CORPUSCLES TO ELECTRONS. Isobel Falconer. 3 THE QUESTIONABLE MATTER OF ELECTRICITY: THE RECEPTION OF J.J. THOMSON'S "CORPUSCLE" AMONG ELECTRICAL THEORISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS. Graeme Gooday. 4 PAUL VILLARD, J.J. THOMSON, AND THE COMPOSITION OF CATHODE RAYS. Benoit Lelong. II WHAT WAS THE NEWBORN ELECTRON GOOD FOR?. 5 THE ZEEMAN EFFECT AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON. Theodore Arabatzis. 6 THE ELECTRON, THE PROTYLE, AND THE UNITY OF MATTER. Helge Kragh. 7 0. W. RICHARDSON AND THE ELECTRON THEORY OF MATTER, 1901-1916. Ole Knudsen. 8 ELECTRON GAS THEORY OF METALS: FREE ELECTRONS IN BULK MATTER. Walter Kaiser. III ELECTRONS APPLIED AND APPROPRIATED. 9 THE ELECTRON AND THE NUCLEUS. Laurie M. Brown. 10 THE ELECTRON, THE HOLE, AND THE TRANSISTOR. Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan. 11 REMODELING A CLASSIC: THE ELECTRON IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 1900-1940. MaryJo Nye. 12 THE PHYSICISTS' ELECTRON AND ITS APPROPRIATION BY THE CHEMISTS. Kostas Gavroglu. IV PHILOSOPHICAL ELECTRONS. 13 WHO REALLY DISCOVERED THE ELECTRON?. Peter Achinstein. 14 HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS: ON THE REALITY OF SPIN. Margaret Morrison. 15 WHAT SHOULD PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ELECTRON?. Jonathan Bain and John D. Norton. 16 THE ROLE OF THEORY IN THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS OR, How MUCH DO WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTRONS. TO DO SCIENCE WITH AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE?. Nicolas Rasmussen and Alan Chalmers