No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005], ©2005.

xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction -- Experiment--Making or Breaking Theories -- The Violation of Parity Conservation -- The Meselson-Stahl Experiment: "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" -- Emil Konopinski and the Theory of ?-Decay -- The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force -- The Search for What Is There -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Road to the Neutrino -- How Many Neutrinos? -- The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-keV Neutrino -- The Missing Solar Neutrinos -- Blas Cabrera and the Search for Magnetic Monopoles -- The Trouble with Scientists -- Robert Millikan and the Charge of the Electron -- The Early Searches for Gravity Waves -- Atomic Parity Violation: Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? -- Conclusion: No Easy Answers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.