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Subelectrons, Presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Dispute

Abstract: The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Holton, Gerald J. 1978. Subelectrons, presuppositions, and the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute. In Historical studies in the physical sciences, eds.

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“…124-125. 34 Millikan's conclusions were contested amongst specialists in the field for more than a decade after publication of this work; see Holton (1978) in particular; for a defence of Millikan, see Goodstein (2001). from a range of fields of scientific enquiry as those described.…”
Section: Casesmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…124-125. 34 Millikan's conclusions were contested amongst specialists in the field for more than a decade after publication of this work; see Holton (1978) in particular; for a defence of Millikan, see Goodstein (2001). from a range of fields of scientific enquiry as those described.…”
Section: Casesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…In the early part of the twentieth century, Robert Millikan conducted a series of investigations to establish that the charge of the electron was quantized (had a discrete fundamental value) and occurred in situ as multiples of this value rather than a continuum as had been previously proposed by Thomas Edison, amongst others (Holton 1978). 31 The received narrative of Millikan's investigations is presented as an ingenious use of the cloud chamber developed by Charles Wilson (Franklin 1986, 216).…”
Section: Casesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Interestingly, Daston and Galison (2007, p. 478) consider the controversy with respect to the determination of the elementary electrical charge between Millikan and Ehrenhaft (Holton, 1978) as an example of trained judgment.…”
Section: Teaching Objectivity In Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another example is provided by experimental data that led to the determination of the elementary electrical charge by R. Millikan and F. Ehrenhaft in the period 1909-1925(Holton, 1978Niaz, 2005). Although, both researchers had very similar experimental data, inspection of phenomena was far from simple, as Millikan postulated the existence of a universal electrical charge (the electron), and Ehrenhaft postulated the existence of fractional electrical charges (sub-electrons).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
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“…This behind-the-scenes work is necessary for performances, yet needs to be obscured because it would undermine the desired impression. Laboratory ethnographies have long made the point that the actual practice that takes place on the "backstage" of scientific labs is messier and more interpretive than what is presented to audiences in journal articles (Gilbert & Mulkay 1984;Holton 1978;Knorr Cetina 1983;Woolgar 1982). The discrepancy between backstage practice and frontstage presentation might be regarded as ultimately benign, even if sociologically interesting, under the premise that the science ultimately "works."…”
Section: False Positives As a Social Dilemmamentioning
confidence: 99%