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Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Experiment and theDevelopment of the Theory of Weak Interactions: From Fermi to V-A: 1. Fermi'stheory; 2. Toward a universal Fermi interaction; muons and pions; 3.Beta-decay theory following World War II; 4. The discovery of paritynonconversation; 5. The V-A theory of weak interactions and its acceptance;Part II. Toward a Philosophy of Experiment: 6. Experimental results; 7. Theroles of experiment; 8. Do mutants have to be slain, or do they die ofnatural causes? The case of atomic parity-violation experiments; Conclusion;Appendix; References; Index.