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Filtering by: Creator Walsh, Stephen Joseph, 1951- Advisor Doel, Ronald E. Decade 2000-2009

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