Histories of the electron: the birth of microphysics

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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