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  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
    Abstract:
    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Japanese-American interment.18 Geneticist Hermann J. Muller repeatedly asked Dunn for help because Dunn

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

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Section 3.4 A Troublesome Discovery: the J/psi Controversy ............... 73 Section 3.5 Risk and