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

Creator:: Reid, Tim S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , including the theory of evolution, into a coherent whole. In April of 1930, Mormon Apostle Joseph Fielding

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Jankowski, Meghan Petersen, and Jennifer Sullivan, all of whom work under the capable direction of Joseph

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:: several locations that I visited. Everyone at American Philosophical Society, especially Joseph-James

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Creator:: Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Jason, Ryan, and Tyler for retrieving boxes and boxes of information for me. I thank Stephen Lawson for

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

Creator:: Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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:: at Hanford, 1943 to 1951 Hanford and the Manhattan Project Managing the Environment The Birth of a

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:: Boltseridge, Nathan H.
Abstract:: In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: men and women were seen by American society during the early 1950s at the height of Joseph McCarthy's

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Merrill Co., 1927) and Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper: A Study and a Confession (New York: Harcourt

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:: (Accession 3181-4). University of Washington Archives and Special Collections, Seattle WA. McCarthy: Joseph

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

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

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

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

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