To envision a new particle or change an existing law? Hypothesis formation and anomaly resolution for the curious case of the \({\beta}\) decay spectrum

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.11.002zbMath1282.81206OpenAlexW1985390479MaRDI QIDQ2437510

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

energy conservationneutrinohypothesis formation{\(\beta\)} spectrumearly nuclear physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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