Author: Allan Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: wrong, right, experiment
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1990-05-25
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521382076
ISBN-13: 9780521382076

In Experiment, Right or Wrong, Allan Franklin continues his investigation of the history and philosophy of experiment presented in his previous book, The Neglect of Experiment. In this new study, Franklin considers the fallibility and corrigibility of experimental results and presents detailed histories of two such episodes: 1) the experiment and the development of the theory of weak interactions from Fermi’s theory in 1934 to the V-A theory of 1957 and 2) atomic parity violation experiments and the Weinberg-Salam unified theory of electroweak interactions of the 1970s and 1980s. In t

Author: Allan Franklin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: experiment, problems, discord, selectivity
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-11-17
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0822941910
ISBN-13: 9780822941910

Selectivity and Discord addresses the fundamental question of whether there are grounds for belief in experimental results. Specifically, Allan Franklin is concerned with two problems in the use of experimental results in science: selectivity of data or analysis procedures and the resolution of discordant results. By means of detailed case studies of episodes from the history of modern physics, Franklin shows how these problems can be—and are—solved in the normal practice of science and, therefore, that experimental results may be legitimately used as a basis for scientific knowledge.

Authors:Allan Franklin, A.W.F. Edwards, Daniel J. Fairbanks,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: controversy, fisher, mendel, ending
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822959860
ISBN-13: 9780822959861

In 1865, Gregor Mendel presented “Experiments in Plant-Hybridization,” the results of his eight-year study of the principles of inheritance through experimentation with pea plants. Overlooked in its day, Mendel’s work would later become the foundation of modern genetics. Did his pioneering research follow the rigors of real scientific inquiry, or was Mendel’s data too good to be true-the product of doctored statistics?  In Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy, leading experts present their conclusions on the legendary controversy surrounding the challenge to Mendel’s fi

Author: Adams Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: measures, weights
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $20.75
ISBN-10: 1113496045
ISBN-13: 9781113496041

Authors:John Augustus Sutter, Allan R. Ottley, Allan R. Ottl
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: rush, sacramento, gold, origins, family, sutter
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0806134933
ISBN-13: 9780806134932

excellent cover, clean inside pages and excellent binding

Author: John Franklin JamesonJohn Franklin, Morey Rothber
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: institution, carnegie, washington, library, congress, vol, america, jameson, franklin, development, humanistic, scholarship, john
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0820320390
ISBN-13: 9780820320397

This lucidly written book completes a three-volume documentary history of the work of John Franklin Jameson. Composed principally of Jameson’s extensive public and private correspondence, Volume 3 highlights his most important contributions as managing editor of the American Historical Review, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, and, most important, chief architect and promoter of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Archives. This volume brings once more to life a man whose deeds and thoughts cont

Authors:Rima Franklin, Rima Franklin, Aaron Mills,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environment, microbes, distribution, spatial
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 140206215X
ISBN-13: 9781402062155

Microbes are very small and, as individuals, are capable of influencing a portion of the environment only slightly larger than their own body size, i.e., a few microns. However, their impact on the landscape is enormous, and ecosystem processes such as organic matter decomposition, denitrification, and metal oxidation/reduction are measured on scales of meters to kilometers. This volume highlights recent advances that have contributed to our understanding of spatial patterns and scale issues in microbial ecology, and brings together research conducted at a range of spatial scales (from µm