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

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Swanner, Leandra

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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...

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3 The discovery of the tau lepton is mentioned in Laurie M. Brown et al., “The Rise of the Standard
Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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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...

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& Brothers Publishers, 1957),pp. 28-34. 2 G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl. Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961
Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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Ellis, Erik

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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...

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

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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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...

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more readable form, publishing it as Traité de Ia culture des terres suivant les principes de M. Tull

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Leptons (Nuclear physics) -- History1
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