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Revision as of 08:21, 14 October 2008 by KYPark (talk | contribs) (→Selected Publications)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Andrew Pickering is a sociologist and historian of science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of London, and a doctorate in Science Studies from the University of Edinburgh. His book Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics is a classic in the field of the sociology of science. He also authored The mangle of practice: Time, agency and science (University of Chicago Press, 1995). He is currently working on a book on the postwar social history of cybernetics.
Selected Publications
- The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984.
- "Elementary Particles: Discovered or Constructed?" in: W. P. Trower and G. Bellini (eds) Physics in Collision: High-Energy ee/ep/pp Interactions, pp. 439-48. New York and London: Plenum, 1982.
- "Interests and Analogies," in: S. B. Barnes and D. O. Edge (eds.) Science in Context: Readings in the Sociology of Science, pp. 125-46. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1982.
- "The Hunting of the Quark," Isis, Vol. 72 (1981), 216-36.
- "Exemplars and Analogies: A Comment on Crane's Study of Kuhnian Paradigms in High-Energy Physics" and "Reply to Crane," Social Studies of Science, Vol. 10 (1980), 497-502, 507-8.
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