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Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

Creator:: Johnson, Kristin Renee
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Avian Biology: Canadian Ornithology, 1860-1950 (Ph..D. Dissertation, McGill University, 1985). Paul

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

Creator:: Johnson, Kristin Renee
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Ornithologists' Union: A Pre-Synthesis po Abstract approved: Paul L. Farber In 1959 the British

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

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: with Paul Farber always give perspective, and I am indebted to him for giving me the opportunity

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

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for privacy AKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank the members of my thesis committeeMary J0 Nye, Robert Nye, Paul

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

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: also thank the other members of my committee Ron Doel, Paul Farber, and Robert Nyc who willingly read

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:: Swanner, Leandra
Abstract:: This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: opportunity to learn from Paul Farber. For me, the History Department is truly synonymous with Paul, whose

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

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee, Dr. Lisa Sarasohn, Dr. Robert Nye and Dr. Paul Kopperman, read my work attentively including

'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

Creator:: Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
Abstract:: Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: encouragement. Paul Farber was a sounding board when I needed it most during the first year of my masters

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I offer heartfelt thanks to the members of my committee, Mary Jo Nye, Robert Nye, Paul Farber

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Creator:: Ellis, D. Erik
Abstract:: The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, and in regional histories. To historians of science, Hanford is described as an industrial facility that illustrates the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF D. Erik Ellis for the degree of

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Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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

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

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

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

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

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

'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

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