伽里森对20世纪微观物理学史的研究工作,以"实践"的视角展现了"仪器"作为一种物质文化载体在科学发展过程中的特殊作用,以及在实际的科学发展过程中,实验、理论和仪器三者之间的多维非线性相互作用.在此基础上,其独创的交易区理论成为科学史等众多领域中具有广泛影响的解释模型.交易区理论以科学发展的连续性代替了库恩科学革命中科学的格式塔转换,成为继库恩的科学革命理论之后,关于科学发展的另一全新图景.With a practiceal point of view, Peter Galison' s research into the history of the 20th century microphysics has revealed the unique function of apparatus, the carrier of material culture, in the developmental process of science. He has also shown the inter - relational, multi - dimensional, and nonlinear relationship between experiment, theory, and instrument in the actual process of scientific development. Galison' s original "trading zone" theory has become an influential interpretation model in the field of the history of science and other related areas, has described an entirely different development mode from Knhn' s, and has become another entirely new landscape of how science develops after Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions theory.