What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number?

IF 1.8 3区化学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI:10.1007/s10698-022-09423-0

K. Brad Wray

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I respond to Scerri’s recent reply to my claim that there was a scientific revolution in chemistry in the early twentieth Century. I grant, as Scerri insists, that there are significant continuities through the change about which we are arguing. That is so in all scientific revolutions. But I argue that the changes were such that they constitute a Kuhnian revolution, not in the classic sense of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but in the sense of Kuhn’s mature theory, developed in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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当化学家开始按原子序数对元素进行分类时，发生了什么?

我认为在20世纪初发生了一场化学科学革命，而塞里最近对我的观点做出了回应。我承认，正如塞里所坚持的那样，在我们所争论的变化中存在着重要的连续性。所有的科学革命都是如此。但我认为，这些变化构成了库恩式的革命，不是《科学革命的结构》中经典意义上的革命，而是库恩在20世纪80年代和90年代初发展起来的成熟理论。

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