To envision a new particle or change an existing law? Hypothesis formation and anomaly resolution for the curious case of the decay spectrum

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2013.11.002MaRDI QIDQ2437510zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tjerk Gauderis

Publication date 3 March 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.11.002

zbMATH Keywords

early nuclear physicsenergy conservationhypothesis formationneutrino{\(\beta\)} spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Nuclear physics (81V35)

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