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

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    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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    prize 1902); Fischer studied with Adolf von Baeyer (Adolf von Baeyer (1835 – 1917, Nobel Prize 1905

  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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    Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
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    The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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    YEARS, 1879-1891 ........................................... 146 ASAPH HALL, JR. YEARS, 1892-1905

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    Harding and Effie Warr of the Tring Library at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum (now part of the

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

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    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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    self-conscious about his ambiguous political stance in the late 1920s. In a letter to Walter Landauer

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

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    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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    . Robert Fox and George Weisz (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981), pp. 31-60, on p. 31; John H. Weiss

  • Historical Sources of Science-as-Social-Practice: Michael Polanyi's Berlin

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    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Historians and sociologists of science often identify the efflorescence of social stud ies of science with the work of postwar American intellectuals such as Robert K. Merton and Thomas S. Kuhn. They often also refer to the views of Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) on the roles of tacit knowledge, apprenticeship, social...
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    and society in modern Europe (Bloomington, 1978); George Weisz, 'The academic elite and the movement

  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
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    , and Miriam Rothschild's account of the work of Walter Rothschild and the curators at his private

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

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    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    , Inc., 1956). For more on the heroic element in James's life and thought, see George Cotkin, William

  • Mormons and evolution : a history of B. H. Roberts and his attempt to reconcile science and religion

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    Reid, Tim S.
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    Although much has been written describing the various reactions to the origin of Species in America, the Mormon reaction to Darwinism has been largely ignored. This dissertation will recount the history of this reaction as exemplified by the life and works of B. H. Roberts. Roberts's intellectual pursuits early in...
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    reaction to Darwinism in nineteenth-century America.21 George E. Webb's The 18James R. Moore, The Post

  • 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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    [Introduction]; David Kushner, "Sir George Darwin and a British School of Geophysics," in Geisen and Holmes