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John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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Christensen, Terry M.

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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...

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Duffy, Roy Goodman, Charles Greifenstein, Earle Spamer, and Lydia Vazquez-Rivera, were especially
Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)

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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....

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Ahern, Roy Goodman, and Valerie-Anne Lutz, was incredibly generous throughout my three months there
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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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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Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

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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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Mentoring in science2
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-20082
Agriculture -- Research -- United States1
Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1
Geneticists -- Attitudes1
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