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  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    for Social Research’s University in Exile (Arthur D. Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German

  • Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

    Creator:
    Hall, Alice
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    The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Plague of Justinian: the First Pandemic . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Medieval

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    , Richard Matzner, Alan Mills, Charles Misner, Daniel Rohrlich, Lawrence Shepley, S. Fred Singer, Daniel

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

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    Christensen, Terry M.
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    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Research Schools, 220; Alan Rocke, "Group Research in German Chemistry, 78; R. Steven Turner, "Vision

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

    Creator:
    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    : A New Frontier for Science and Education, Edited by Alan R. Berkowitz, Charles H. Nilon, and Karen

  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Oregon ............... 39 The Growth of the Cherry in Oregon .................................. 40

  • Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

    Creator:
    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...
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    de Broglie and the Empirical Foundations of Matter-Waves," in La d&couverte des ondes de matiere

  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

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    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, many placed their confidence in the ability of science to improve the

  • Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society

    Creator:
    Sarasohn, Lisa T.
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    This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal...
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    , and some of the grammar in the manuscript sources I use. Isis, 1999, 90:715-737 ?D 1999 by The

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

    Creator:
    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    D. Gordon, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (New York