Realism, physical meaningfulness, and molecular spectroscopy

• Main Authors: Miyake, Teru, Smith, George E.
• Other Authors: T. D. Lyons
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Spectroscopy; Measurement
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169830
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although the realism debate has focused on the work of Jean Perrin on Brownian motion, we claim that the best place to look for a resolution of this debate is the period after the late 1920s, when stable theory-mediated measurement of molecular parameters first became possible through the applicatio...