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A Romantic Genius? The Experience of Knowledge that Shaped Werner Heisenberg's Scientific Persona
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.In 1976, the year that Werner Heisenberg passed away, Armin Hermann published a short biography, titled Werner Heisenberg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Since then, historians and biographers have offered their accounts on Heisenberg's life and his contributions to modern physics. Many of these biographies present Heisenberg as a genius.
Elena Schaa
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Abstract The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident underscored the crucial role of nuclear engineering experts. However, the specific arguments and motivations of scientists advocating for the introduction of foreign reactors remain unclear.
Masahiro Inohana
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Invisible Labor and the “Ghost Particle”: Underground Physics at the Kolar Gold Fields**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Abstract When cosmic rays—high‐energy particles from outer space—encounter the Earth's atmosphere, they produce particles called neutrinos. To detect them, physicists go underground inside deep mines where the overlying rock can filter out the cosmic‐ray background radiation.
Nithyanand Rao
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Abstract Short‐lived, unobservable, and not subject to the usual rules of conservation of energy and momentum, virtual particles—an integral part of the conceptual framework of quantum field theory (QFT)—exhibit a number of curious characteristics which, in recent decades, have in part fueled important discussions about their ontological status ...
Jean‐Philippe Martinez
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
André de Melo Araújo
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite its economic importance, the textile industry is one of the most polluting sectors. This study addresses the critical gap in understanding sustainable decision‐making in textile SMEs, where decision processes often remain informal and lack structured frameworks.
Israel Naranjo +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. In this paper, we analyze the role of firms in mitigating climate change through their model of corporate governance. We examine the impact of key organizational control and incentive mechanisms on firms' carbon emission intensity.
Cécile Cezanne +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how firms leverage sustainable innovation propensity and digital sustainability transparency as strategic resources to navigate multilevel environmental pressures and achieve environmental and innovation performance.
Li Zheng +4 more
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