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

Creator:

Christensen, Terry M.

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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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Biochemical Sciences (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990); Gerald L. Geison, "Scientific
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...

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with the work of Walter Heitler, Fritz London and John Slater, became known as the Valence-Bond Theory