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Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Simulation at the Nanoscale

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, FAO 226 TAMPA, FL 33620, USA

    Eric Winsberg

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  1. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Johannes Lenhard

  2. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Günter Küppers

  3. GEMAS, Paris, France

    Terry Shinn

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Winsberg, E. (2006). Handshaking Your Way to the Top: Simulation at the Nanoscale. In: Lenhard, J., Küppers, G., Shinn, T. (eds) Simulation. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5375-4_9

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