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Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Universities, and National Defense, 1945-1970” in “Science after '40” Osiris, 2nd Series, 7, (1992):26-48. The

Managing Complicity: Two German Doctors and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Creator:: Vaughn, Elizabeth P. C.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the origins and outcomes of Operation Paperclip, a program the U.S. government operated in the years immediately following WWII to recruit former Nazi doctors, scientists, and technicians, and capitalize on their research experience. As part of this operation, the U.S. welcomed two doctors who had conducted medical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the United States,” Osiris 20 (2005): 206. 30 Evelyne Shuster, "The Nuremberg Code: Hippocratic

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , “Women in the History of Science: An Ambiguous Place,” Osiris 10 (1995): 44. 12 Londa L. Schiebinger

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Creator:: Caulkins, Tamara L.
Abstract:: During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Daniel Eddy, “How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity,” Osiris 29, no. 1 (2014

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Science,” Osiris 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 1–16, 6. 9 Paul Ewald, Plague Time: The New Germ Theory

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Science: New Directions, ed. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen Longino (Ithaca: Osiris, 1997), 172

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Enlightened Societies," Osiris, no.1 (2012): 208. 34 Alan I. Marcus, Science As Service Establishing and

Oceans and Origins: Oregon State University and Oceanography in the Twentieth Century

Creator:: Guerrini, Anita and Rozwadowski, Helen M.
Abstract:: A collection of articles on the origins and early years of oceanography at OSU.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: 5 Henrika Kuklick & Robert E. Kohler, eds. Science in the Field (vol. 11)(1996) Osiris. 6 The most

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Managing Complicity: Two German Doctors and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Oceans and Origins: Oregon State University and Oceanography in the Twentieth Century

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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