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Filtering by: Creator Rowe, Winthrop Allen Remove constraint Creator: Rowe, Winthrop Allen Advisor Nye, Mary Jo Remove constraint Advisor: Nye, Mary Jo Decade 2000-2009 Remove constraint Decade: 2000-2009 Subject Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 Remove constraint Subject: Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

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  • 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
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    Allen Library at the University of Washington went out of their way to make my stay there both

  • Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
    Abstract:
    John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Isenberg, Bahram Mashoon, Allen Mills, Charles Misner, Daniel Rohrlich, Larry Shepley, J. Fred Singer