A Study of Scientific Reasoning in a Peripheral Context: The Discovery of the Raman Effect

Autor/in	Dasgupta, Deepanwita
Titel	A Study of Scientific Reasoning in a Peripheral Context: The Discovery of the Raman Effect
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 13 (2015) 2, S.171-186 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210315571035
Schlagwörter	Scientists; Science Process Skills; Scientific Methodology; Thinking Skills; Abstract Reasoning; Scientific Research; Optics; Independent Study; Science History; Communities of Practice; Foreign Countries; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Denkfähigkeit; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Optik; Selbststudium; History of science; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Community; Ausland; Indien
Abstract	This paper is an attempt to reconstruct how C.V. Raman, a peripheral scientist in the early 20th century colonial India, managed to develop a research programme in physical optics from his remote colonial location. His attempts at self-training and self-education eventually led him to the discovery of the Raman Effect and to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. In trying to re-construct an account of the ways in which Raman developed his research programme in optics by grasping various elements of a scientific practice from the Western scientific community, we see how a newcomer in science could be surprisingly creative in achieving new breakthroughs, and how through such efforts he or she can establish new trading zones with another established community that has the potential to develop into independent practices. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01